Synonym: basis, cause, ground, motivation, prompting, reason. Similar words: motivate, motion, promotion, give notice, active, native, incentive, relative. Meaning: ['məʊtɪv] 
n. 1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior 2. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music. adj. 1. causing or able to cause motion 2. impelling to action.
n. 1. the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior 2. a theme that is elaborated on in a piece of music. adj. 1. causing or able to cause motion 2. impelling to action. 
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61. But what other motive could there be for silence?
62. In this context the primary motive is increased sales.
63. The murders might have a political motive.
64. The motive for the murder was clearly revenge.
65. It was the motive force that powered the world.
66. There was the motive for the killing!
67. He had to have an ulterior motive.
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68. The other and perhaps stronger motive for regional bloc-building is the hope of increasing collective bargaining power.
69. Society and the church used to condemn the profit motive as sinful and wrong.
70. One fundamental motive is the desire of big corporations to boost earnings.
71. Mrs Heron was murdered in cold blood in a crime which to date has appeared to have no motive.
72. Mortensen had a double motive for going to San Francisco: to see his kids and to apply for a job.
73. The motive behind the shake-up has been to improve post-16 education.
74. Marty social services are simply not well suited to companies whose basic motive is profit.
75. Such a motive had always existed throughout the world in business transactions.
76. Jamie had no idea of her real motive for searching the dead man's rooms.
77. The universally-shared human motive of rational self-interest makes human action predictable, generalisable and controllable.
78. How far was combating socialism the prime motive for the Liberal social reforms 1906-14? 2.
79. Worse still, they unintentionally fostered negative, adverse meanings that equated Tesseract with a profit motive that people did not trust.
80. Police say now believe the motive for the killing was robbery; a small amount of cash was taken from the till.
81. This was already being discussed widely as a possible motive for the action that Orkney Islands Council had taken.
82. An improper and dominant motive would have to be shown for revealing matters which would normally be in the public interest.
83. But while public provision does not preclude charitable giving, the existence of the profit motive in any service usually does.
84. Her second teacher was Miss Barnsdale, one of those who suspects a mean motive for everything.
85. Nearly every individual who participated in the decision to use the bomb had his own motive.
86. It never looks half as glamorous today, now that the motive power is diesel.
87. Anne herself was well aware of Joan's motive in accepting the suggestion with such alacrity.
88. Motivation means that you have a good motive for action.
89. The Conservatives have a tendency to believe that planning decisions can be taken on the profit motive.
90. A further motive for rethinking organisational structures has been the growing awareness of potential conflict of interest.
More similar words: motivate, motion, promotion, give notice, active, native, incentive, relative, actively, narrative, objective, sensitive, deceptive, detective, executive, cognitive, supportive, cooperative, innovative, diminutive, collective, productive, distinctive, attractive, protective, perspective, relatively, initiative, effectively, alternative.