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Definitions for Purposes
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  1. purposes

    Plural form of the word purpose.

    Her purpose is to be a mother in the home and her other purposes include to be a wife to her husband and Director of a social enterprise.


    Submitted by MaryC on November 24, 2015  

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Purposes' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1764

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Purposes' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2745

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Purposes in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Purposes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Purposes in a Sentence

  1. Alpert Bozkurt:

    Our dream is to give people the capability to train their dogs like professionals at home, so that the pets can be turned into working animals. For example, for search and rescue, when there's a big disaster in an urban environment, hundreds of houses collapsed, and there's only a certain number of trained dogs, so this would give us the capability to train more and more dogs for such purposes.

  2. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy:

    We are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes.

  3. Art Caplan:

    These are extreme, horrific violations. And it's exactly why the hospital is a privacy zone, there are a very long list of reasons why taping, recording, videoing for anything other than medical or treatment purposes has to be strictly off-limits, because you're trying to protect people who can't protect themselves.

  4. Danny Hale:

    Ultimately, the police department, for public safety purposes, will have to mandate officers to work, we're professional and will do the job.

  5. Washington Irving:

    Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

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