aim
1 aim aims aiming aimed
If you aim for something or aim to do something, you plan or hope to achieve it.
He said he would aim for the 100 metres world record at the world championships in August.
Businesses will have to aim at long-term growth.
...an appeal which aims to raise funds for children with special needs.
VB
2 aim aims
The aim of something that you do is the purpose for which you do it or the result that it is intended to achieve.
The aim of the festival is to increase awareness of Hindu culture and traditions.
...a research programme that has largely failed to achieve its principal aims.
N-COUNT: oft with poss
= objective
3 aim aimed
If an action or plan is aimed at achieving something, it is intended or planned to achieve it.
The new measures are aimed at tightening existing sanctions.
...talks aimed at ending the nine year old war in Mozambique.
V-PASSIVE
4 aim aims aiming aimed
If you aim to do something, you decide or want to do it. (AM, INFORMAL)
Are you aiming to visit the gardens?.
I didn't aim to get caught.
VB
5 aim aims aiming aimed
If your actions or remarks are aimed at a particular person or group, you intend that the person or group should notice them and be influenced by them.
His message was aimed at the undecided middle ground of Israeli politics.
Advertising aimed at children should be curbed.
VB: usu passive
6 aim aims aiming aimed
If you aim a weapon or object at something or someone, you point it towards them before firing or throwing it.
When he appeared again, he was aiming the rifle at Wade.
...a missile aimed at the arms factory...
I didn't know I was supposed to aim at the same spot all the time.
VB
7 aim
Your aim is your skill or action in pointing a weapon or other object at its target.
He stood with the gun gripped in his right hand and his left hand steadying his aim.
N-SING: oft poss N
8 aim aims aiming aimed
If you aim a kick or punch at someone, you try to kick or punch them.
They set on him, punching him in the face and aiming kicks at his shins.
VB
9 aim
When you take aim, you point a weapon or object at someone or something, before firing or throwing it.
She had spotted a man with a shotgun taking aim.
PHR: V inflects
10 aim
If you take aim at someone or something, you criticize them strongly. (AM)
Republican strategists are taking particular aim at Democratic senators in the Carolinas.
PHR: V inflects, PHR n
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achieve
achieve achieves achieving achieved
If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
There are many who will work hard to achieve these goals.
We have achieved what we set out to do.
VB
= accomplish
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political
1 political
Political means relating to the way power is achieved and used in a country or society.
All other political parties there have been completely banned.
The Canadian government is facing another political crisis.
...a democratic political system...
Abortion is once again a controversial political and moral issue.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
See also party political.
politically
They do not believe the killings were politically motivated.
Politically and economically this is an extremely difficult question.
ADV: ADV adj/adv, ADV with v, ADV with cl
2 political
Someone who is political is interested or involved in politics and holds strong beliefs about it.
Oh I'm not political, I take no interest in politics.
This play is very political.
ADJ-GRADED
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organization
1 organization organizations
An organization is an official group of people, for example a political party, a business, a charity, or a club.
Most of these specialized schools are provided by voluntary organizations.
...a report by the International Labour Organisation.
N-COUNT: oft in names (BRIT) also organisation
2 organization
The organization of an event or activity involves making all the necessary arrangements for it.
...the exceptional attention to detail that goes into the organisation of this event...
Several projects have been delayed by poor organisation.
N-UNCOUNT (BRIT) also organisation
3 organization
The organization of something is the way in which its different parts are arranged or relate to each other.
I am aware that the organization of the book leaves something to be desired.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n (BRIT) also organisation
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institution
1 institution institutions
An institution is a large important organization such as a university, church, or bank.
...the Institution of Civil Engineers...
Class size varies from one type of institution to another.
The Hong Kong Bank is Hong Kong's largest financial institution.
N-COUNT: oft in names
2 institution institutions
An institution is a building where certain people are looked after, for example people who are mentally ill or children who have no parents.
He was transferred to Shoal Creek Mental Institution for an indefinite period.
Larry has been in an institution since he was four.
He visited various penal institutions in the United Kingdom in the late 1930s.
N-COUNT: oft in names
3 institution institutions
An institution is a custom or system that is considered an important or typical feature of a particular society or group, usually because it has existed for a long time.
I believe in the institution of marriage.
...the institution of the family.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
4 institution
The institution of a new system is the act of starting it or bringing it in.
There was never an official institution of censorship in Albania.
...the institution of the forty-hour week.
N-UNCOUNT: usu N of n
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