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Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) With the intention of, with the goal of (followed by a noun or a gerund).
Business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the newly created county’s domestic tranquility, dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government.
1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:We read the contract with a view to its renegotiation.
We read the contract with a view to how it could be made to appeal to voters.
We read the contract with a view to finding a way out of it.
Synonyms
with an eye to · with an eye towards
Translations (6)
de mit dem Zweck (with the intention of) · sv i syfte att (with the intention of) · hu céljából (with the intention of) · is i því skyni að (with the intention of) · nl met de bedoeling om (with the intention of) · ga ag súil le (with the intention of)