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principal purpose

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meanings of principaland purpose


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principal
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/ us /ˈprɪn.sə.pəl/
first in order ...
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purpose
noun
uk /ˈpɜː.pəs/ us /ˈpɝː.pəs/
why you do something or why ...
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Examples of principal purpose


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Slightly shorter, they might have been less of a distraction from the book's principalpurpose.
However, the principalpurpose of keeping sheep and goats was to generate cash income.
The principalpurpose of this undertaking is to evaluate the equilibrium asset prices and portfolio choices that obtain under these assumptions.
Their principalpurpose, however, was all too often the opportunistic one of state enrichment.
The principalpurpose behind the use of participatory approaches in agricultural research has implications for the assessment of research impacts and when this assessment should take place.
There, as my noble friend has pointed out, the words "principalpurpose" have been stated.
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It is a question of assessing, in all the circumstances, what is the principalpurpose that the company has in mind.
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I make that point as my principalpurpose.
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Subsection (2)(a): that the company's purpose or principalpurpose is not to give financial assistance for the acquisition of shares.
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Whether it is lawful or not depends on what is its principalpurpose and whether it is likely to achieve that purpose.
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Its principalpurpose is far the control of advertising claims and statements.
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The principalpurpose is to provide accommodation for the staff.
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The principalpurpose of this group of amendments is not in the initial amendment, which would remove the third of the four principles.
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Its principalpurpose is to relieve the police and the courts of a heavy and growing burden.
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The principalpurpose of its existence is to try to give the complainant satisfaction.
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That was not the principalpurpose of the directive.
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The principalpurpose of this new benefit is to provide financial help to disabled housewives who previously received no help whatever.
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The principalpurpose of those proceedings is to preserve the principle that those who have promised to keep the secrets do so.
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Peacekeeping is an activity, not the principalpurpose.
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