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Definitions for purposes
pur·pos·es
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purposes
Plural form of the word purpose.
Her purpose is to be a mother in the home and her other purposes include to be a wife to her husband and Director of a social enterprise.
Submitted by MaryC on November 24, 2015
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Rank popularity for the word 'purposes' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1764
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Rank popularity for the word 'purposes' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2745
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of purposes in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of purposes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of purposes in a Sentence
This process then turns into decluttering the physical things in your home because people make the emotional decision to either give those items away to family, friends, charity or just throw them away, essentially, the process ends up with decluttering your home and getting a digital home inventory for insurance purposes for all the personal property that remains in the home after decluttering.
Prisoners couldn't use materials from SS officers for private purposes. It was forbidden, but prisoners many times carried out illegal activity and used these materials for illegal artworks.
Using Italian silk is very important to us because we know who has made it and how. For our purposes we need extremely clean cocoons.
Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes":
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
If they purchased it and on these forms they said their use was for agriculture purposes, which is the only legal way they could use it, and then brought them into the territory and used them in commercial and residential buildings, that's a clear and malice violation of the law.
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- propósitosSpanish
- propósitosPortuguese
- syftenSwedish
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