Purposes - definition, pronunciation, transcription

By the time ... American aid began pouring in, to all intents and purposes the war had already been lost.

...a strict sect that believes that fellowship with gentiles should exist only for the purposes of conversion...

...the estimate is inaccurate, but will do for our purposes...

This drug is to be used only for medicinal purposes.

...for dramatic purposes, the film telescopes the years over which the events occurred into a few short months...

A certain amount of the firm's money was channelled off for training purposes.

85% of foreign aid is earmarked by Congress for specific purposes.

For tax purposes, your pension and earnings are added together.

These herbs would have been grown for medicinal purposes in days gone by.

For the purposes of illustration, some of the more important symptoms are listed below.

For illustrative purposes, only a simple example is given here.

The war was, to all intents and purposes, over.

I keep a bottle of brandy handy - purely for medicinal purposes.

The time you spend on it doesn't, for all practical purposes, affect the final result.

Several of the items had religious purposes.