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goal-oriented en · ADJ

Etymology

From goal + oriented.

Meanings

  1. Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose.
    • Like many films of the indie realist strain - and unlike Lost in Translation — Welcome to the Dollhouse eventually abandons its slack, episodic pattern of narration for more goal-oriented suspense. 2011, Michael Z. Newman, Indie, An American Film Culture, page 117:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
goal-orientated UK, alternative lexicographic
most goal-oriented Degree=Sup lexicographic
more goal-oriented Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Deriveds

goal-orientedness

Translations (3)

de zielgerichtet (Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose) · af doelgerig (Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose) · nl doelgericht (Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose)