ultimate goal
collocation in Englishmeaningsofultimateandgoal
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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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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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Theultimategoalof the government was to gradually phase out unprocessed cocoa exports (ibid.).
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Ourultimategoalis to promote healthy growth and development.
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Ideally theultimategoalof any remediation effort will be to reduce the concentrations of contaminants at the site to those befitting a pristine ecosystem.
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Interpreting their meanings, expressivity, and psychological significance is a more distant butultimategoal, a study of which is beyond the scope of this essay.
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They defined a standard vocabulary to obtain consistent terminology and levels of detail, with theultimategoalof creating standardized entities for design repositories.
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Theultimategoalof most perceptual researchers is, or at least should be, to provide an account for perception as it occurs in everyday life.
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Theultimategoalis to understand the mind by characterizing the neurology that can do rapid information integration.
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The university's participants occasionally suggested that the creation of an international university in the liberal mode was not theirultimategoal.
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Ourultimategoalis to identify and sequence the factors involved.
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This must be theultimategoalfor operative treatment.
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Making a critical point sinking is theultimategoal(perhaps not always achievable).
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However, lower water contents (£20%) are desirable for subsequent cryopreservation, which was theultimategoalof the present dehydration studies.
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However, rashly formed expectations of the results of actions are harmful for attaining theultimategoal.
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Theultimategoalof such a theoretical position therefore, is to include music analysis within lessons as a way of teaching musical awareness.
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Theultimategoalof this research is to develop an intelligent route-planning system for passenger travel service.
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For pediatrics, in her later years she turned to questions of etiology and theultimategoalof prevention.
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This achieves theultimategoalof the societal marketing concept : to benefit society's long-term interests as well as those of the consumer and the firm.
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Theultimategoalof program specialization is to improve the efficiency of the subject program by exploiting the known information in advance.
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Theultimategoalof the soundscape composition is the reintegration of the listener with the environment in a balanced ecological relationship.
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Theultimategoalof economic reforms is a laissez-faire economy where the state does not intervene in the economy.
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