"purpose" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

purpose sustantivo

sustantivo + purpose
Kolokacji: 104
tax purpose • research purpose • training purpose • security purpose • business purpose • purpose of one's visit • entertainment purpose • ...
purpose + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 5
purpose vehicle • purpose computer • purpose entity • purpose processor • purpose fund
purpose + verbo
Kolokacji: 16
purpose seems • purpose includes • purpose builds • UK purpose defeats • UK purpose solves • ...
verbo + purpose
Kolokacji: 102
give purpose • intend for purposes • provide for purposes • suit one's purposes • purpose listed • achieve one's purpose • ...
adjetivo + purpose
Kolokacji: 290
main purpose • primary purpose • sole purpose • practical purpose • informational purpose • original purpose • political purpose • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 70
(6) political, governmental
Kolokacji: 2
(8) agricultural, horticultural
Kolokacji: 2
(19) whole, entire
Kolokacji: 2
(22) peaceful, ideological
Kolokacji: 2
(27) high, noble, lofty, grand
Kolokacji: 4
(32) social, cultural
Kolokacji: 2
(33) great, large, astronomical
Kolokacji: 3
(34) ultimate, final
Kolokacji: 2
(36) basic, traditional, underlying
Kolokacji: 3
(42) humanitarian, human
Kolokacji: 2
(43) major, better, tax-exempt
Kolokacji: 3
(45) evil, malicious, malevolent
Kolokacji: 3
(46) aesthetic, artistic
Kolokacji: 2
(47) dramatic, musical, theatrical
Kolokacji: 3
(50) avowed, alleged
Kolokacji: 2
(54) comparative, far
Kolokacji: 2
(58) selfish, benign, altruistic
Kolokacji: 3
1. selfish purpose = samolubny cel selfish purpose
2. benign purpose = łagodny cel benign purpose
  • Their optimistic faith in a benign cosmic purpose was not his to draw on.
  • If the president neglects the pardon power, it may become effectively unavailable to serve the benign purposes the framers envisioned for it.
  • McSlarrow laid down a harmony track: "any technology can be used for either benign or nefarious purposes."
  • The inspectors in Iraq concluded that the mobile units had not been used for making weapons and might have had some benign purpose.
  • That their aid may be employed to benign or malignant purposes, cannot be disproved.
  • It might have been mistaken for a fire extinguisher, and possibly might have started life with such a benign purpose.
  • Some experts, however, think the tubes are for benign purposes.
  • The new cosmic imaginary of a universe vast in time and space also argued against "a personal God or benign purpose."
  • Would it not be desirable to redirect the European tobacco-growing industry towards such benign purposes and to further promote this type of research?
  • Reyat insisted only the clock, relays and tuner had been purchased for other than "benign purposes".
3. altruistic purpose = altruistyczny cel altruistic purpose
(60) federal, legislative
Kolokacji: 2
(62) literary, rhetorical
Kolokacji: 2
(64) environmental, evolutionary
Kolokacji: 2
(65) navigational, touristic
Kolokacji: 2
(68) clinical, institutional
Kolokacji: 2
(69) satirical, humorous, satiric
Kolokacji: 3
preposición + purpose
Kolokacji: 15
on purpose • without purpose • for purposes • of purpose • from one's purpose • ...

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