overriding goal
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overriding
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈraɪ.dɪŋ/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈraɪ.dɪŋ/
more important than ...
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goal
noun[C]
uk/ɡəʊl/us/ɡoʊl/
an area on a playing field, that usually has two posts with a net fixed behind them, where players try to send the ball in order to score in sports such as football ...
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(Definition ofoverridingandgoalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofoverriding goal
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The departmentsoverridinggoalis to ensure the most beneficial use of fiscal resources and revenues to meet critical needs, all within a policy framework set by the governor.
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One basic thing they agree on, though, is what theiroverridinggoalis, and this is to understand how knowledge of language is represented in the mind.
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Theoverridinggoalwas to prevent war and to insist that all notions that warfare was a natural component of international relations were wrong.
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Theoverridinggoalof such projects is to get students to look in several different ways at the culture under examination.
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Not only physicians and other healthcare workers but also teachers in medical schools have to realize that avoidance of death cannot be theoverridinggoalof medicine.
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When production was theoverridinggoal, crofting was obviously regarded as pretty much marginal to it.
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Anoverridinggoalshould be to ensure affordable access to services of general interest, such as water supply, drainage, energy supply, education and health services.
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Theoverridinggoalshould be to treat intellectual property rights in a manner that allows access to technology at affordable prices.
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Poverty eradication must, she says, be theoverridinggoaland should of course run through the entire agreement, including the trade section.
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Ouroverridinggoalshould simply be to ensure the smoothest transfer of sovereignty in 1997 and the smoothest possible lead-up to that date.
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We have made it clear that ouroverridinggoalis to get more freight on to rail.
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That must surely be ouroverridinggoal.
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Theiroverridinggoalis to solve the people problems of your world.
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Although the anime'soverridinggoalis of course that of saving the world, an almost equal amount of time is spent on character interaction.
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Ouroverridinggoalis to communicate clearly across language barriers and geographic boundaries.
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Theoverridinggoalof the program is to develop student-athletes who display character in all areas of life.
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