for all intents and purposes

intent | Business English

intent
noun[ U ]
uk /ɪnˈtent/us
the intention to do something:
intent to do sthHe announced his intent to resign.
intent of (doing) sthThe intent of business research is to improve the general understanding of the dynamics of the business environment.
a letter/statement/declaration of intent
LAW
an intention to do something illegal:
The two men did not act with criminal intent.

Examples of intent

intent
Communicative intents expressed by parents in interaction with young children.
Communicative intents of parents interacting with their young children.
The social-pragmatic account of this effect rests on the presumption that children have certain expectations about people's referential intents.
Thirdly, relationships between the different communicative intents measures and the amount of talk were addressed.
Despite all intents and purposes, the new language policy has not, save on paper, corrected this legacy.
After retrieving relevant components, the designers select a general method to achieve their intents.
Many scenarios cut across lines of individual intents, expectations, and goals.
Differences were only found in parents' use of directing intents and joint discussions.
To all intents and purposes they share a setting, but the ways in which they relate to their sites are radically different.
The energy-conserving trapezoidal rule, though, produces a tra jectory which to all intents and purposes is periodic.
Results indicated that parents of both groups engaged in similar proportions of common intents, such as negotiating immediate activities and negotiating mutual attention.
However, the absence of an effective social security system meant that the government's response to these problems was for all intents and purposes non-existent.
In addition, widely differing semantic intents may be mapped into the same output construction.
In all the cases calculated, the pressure fluctuations are, for all intents and purposes, confined to regions inside the jet flow.
We then trained a bootstrapped model, using 13 call-types from the library and a few simple rules written manually for three frequent intents.
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Collocations withintent

intent

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aggressive intent
I believe that that aggressive intent is more indirect than direct.
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