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with an eye to en · ADP

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Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) With an intention, goal, or consideration to.
    • We read the contract with an eye to its renegotiation.
    • We read the contract with an eye to how it could be made to look to voters.
    • We read the contract with an eye to finding a way out of it.
    • Nickle had made a choice of lanes but this at the best was only guess-work and the place had to be selected with an eye to the possibility of slipping round, via the station fork, into the other lane and taking up a position there if need be. 1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:

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with an eye towards

Synonyms

with a view to · with an eye towards