Synonym: aim, design, determination, goal, intention, object, plan, resolution, target, will. Similar words: on purpose, purple, pose, impose, suppose, oppose, expose, compose. Meaning: ['pɜrpəs /'pɜː-] 
n. 1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions 2. what something is used for 3. the quality of being determined to do or achieve something. v. 1. propose or intend 2. reach a decision.
n. 1. an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions 2. what something is used for 3. the quality of being determined to do or achieve something. v. 1. propose or intend 2. reach a decision. 
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(121) The purpose of the UN is the maintenance of international peace and security.
(122) Our purpose is not only to conquer nature but also to remake nature.
(123) Her main/primary purpose in suing the newspaper for libel was to clear her name.
(124) These cultivated individuals have been imbued with a sense of social purpose.
(125) They felt that all the regularities in nature have a purpose.
(126) It has recently come to my attention that some of the younger boys are not using the toilets for the proper purpose.
(127) She tried to deflect me from my purpose but with no success.
(128) The school's unexceptionable purpose is to involve parents more closely in the education of their children.
(129) He said that the main purpose of the Baha'i Faith was to bring people together .
(130) It's not exactly what I wanted but it will serve my purpose.
(131) Attending the race was not my purpose in coming to Indianapolis.
(132) The lawyer argued that the accused had gone to the victim's house with the express purpose of killing her.
(133) The government had spent a lot on education but to little or no purpose.
(134) Her purpose was to scrutinize his features to see if he was an honest man.
(135) The school was founded with the express purpose of teaching deaf children to speak.
(136) He came here with the purpose of carrying out the attack.
(137) By not working hard enough you defeat your own purpose.
(138) It would be to no purpose to speak to him.
(139) The achievement of one's purpose depends largely on one's perseverance.
(140) Letters whose sole purpose is to make a political point will not be published.
(141) It's time to set our differences by and work together for a common purpose.
(142) We have found a meeting place that will serve our purpose.
(143) The main purpose of his holiday to Greece was to go diving.
(144) I didn't do it on purpose - it was an accident.
(145) There is still a fundamental misunderstanding about the real purpose of this work.
(146) He was asked about casualties, but said it would serve no purpose to count bodies.
(147) Encouraged by her example, they all set to work with a fresh sense of purpose.
(148) Money has been invested in the scheme to very little purpose.
(149) The purpose was to halt the rise in the exchange rate of the Swiss franc.
(150) Anxiety will cause tension[sentencedict .com], which defeats the purpose of the exercise .
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