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noun

the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end.

the terminal point in a race.

a pole, line, or other marker by which such a point is indicated.

an area, basket, cage, or other object or structure toward or into which players of various games attempt to throw, carry, kick, hit, or drive a ball, puck, etc., to score a point or points.

the act of throwing, carrying, kicking, driving, etc., a ball or puck into such an area or object.

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the score made by this act.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English gol boundary, limit; compare Old English gǣlan to hinder, impede

Related forms

goal·less, adjective

sub·goal, noun

Synonyms
1. target; purpose, object, objective, intent, intention. 2. finish.

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Goals is always a great word to know.

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.

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Example Sentences

Setting goals with your employees is an essential element of effective human resources management.

To finish a dissertation, you are expected to move toward distant goals with few concrete milestones.

Their building-blocks were economic, but their goals were political.

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Setting goals with your employees is an essential element of effective human resources management.

To finish a dissertation, you are expected to move toward distant goals with few concrete milestones.

Their building-blocks were economic, but their goals were political.

Read on for ideas that could help you enhance your plans for the future while also meeting your philanthropic goals.

Some think it incompatible with, even inimical to, scientific goals.

Ortiz and his team have gone to elaborate lengths with these goals in mind.

Please help us achieve our goals by using the appropriate containers provided throughout the event.

Setting short-term goals then quickly testing to see if they will bear fruit is similarly absurd.

Fans can vote for the best goals of the year from among.

Strategic leadership sets the vision and goals for an entire organization.

With these two goals in mind, consider the following thought experiment.

Citizens can work toward environmental goals by blending lifestyle changes and advocacy.

Goals include commercialization of research and emphasis on energy, biomedicine and information technology.

Achieving these goals will require producing renewable and alternative fuels more efficiently, and stockpiling loads of them.

Our goals were to open the spaces to each other and to reorganize and upgrade the kitchen as a warm and elegant entertaining area.

But you may also have loftier goals or higher standards.

Wal-Mart's chief executive is set to announce a set of sweeping, specific environmental goals to reduce energy use in its stores.

And not all of the goals seem particularly challenging.

Really dramatic progress towards the goals cannot come from aid alone.

He explains that he wants to inspire kids to dream their dreams and reach their own goals.

Group dynamics and charismatic leadership play powerful roles in convincing people to embrace the expansive goals of terrorism.

We commemorate and look back at the goals and objectives of the sorority and fraternity.

Our goals were to open the spaces to each other and to turn the kitchen into a warm and elegant entertaining area.

Darpa's got ambitious goals when it comes to revolutionizing the outmoded, expensive process of defense manufacturing.

Research on time management suggests that the process of setting goals and priorities gives us a sense of control.

We have no illusions that our goals can be achieved overnight or that countries will suddenly cease to have divergent interests.

After committing to a geotourism strategy, signatories then work with local communities to determine their geotourism goals.

China has won international plaudits for its commitment to green goals.

What wonderful work and goals you have acheived in your lifetime.

The object is to get as many rings onto the goals as possible.

College leaders must embrace goals beyond building a.

Pakistanis, who fear they will be left holding the mess, accuse it of neglecting wider goals of promoting regional stability.

One of the center's goals is to compile and organize the information so that it can serve as potential evidence in court.

For example, it seems obvious that teams need sufficient resources to enable members to accomplish their goals.

If they test positive, they should remain in service until set therapy goals are met.

The problem is, their goals are often in opposition.

It can be tough to fit wellness goals into a to-do list governed lifestyle.

What these companies lack are the skills needed to achieve their goals.

He helped the group develop new air quality guidelines that set out global goals to reduce deaths from pollution.

China's own stated military goals include improving the country's ability to wage information warfare.

The specificity of the three words pulls a writer's head out of the fog and provides some small, achievable goals to work toward.

We have loftier goals to pursue than trying to instill basic manners in a handful of ill-mannered students.

He is careful to note that there are plenty of cases where those goals are linked-but also many where they are not:.

To accomplish goals such as reaching for a meal or swimming, however, an octopus must be able to control its eight appendages.

Lets have some more facts and some more debate with some actively minded people talking about the possiblities and goals.

Some of these goals he met while others remained unfinished.

Accreditors identify thousands of learning goals that could help.

Only you can decide which school is the right fit for your personality and goals.

Their visions and goals differ according to local conditions.

These techniques and their goals are entirely different.

Those are ambitious goals for a technology famous for powering pocket calculators, but investors are paying heed.

Usually, trustees are tolerant of different styles as long as the agreed-upon goals are met and budgets are respected.

The goals of business and the goals of government are different-or should.

What they share is willingness to use the same brutal tactics to achieve their goals.

As a result, this objective may be the furthest of these goals from being realized.

Project goals include promoting both economic development and zero-emissions transportation.

Korean corps, society and government set and tackle industrial goals with the same mindset as going to war.

Read about the goals of this traveling project, find out where it will be exhibited next, and submit your own photos.

The company has developed ambitious sustainability goals.

The environmental movement has never been short on noble goals.

But stability and economic recovery remain distant goals.

Traveler's publishing goals are to find the new, to showcase fresh travel opportunities, to be an advocate for travelers.

But the goals of the mission are not all that make this flight notable.

Eventually far more sophisticated trojans will likely emerge with far more dangerous goals.

Yet far too many philanthropists and non-profits shy away from setting goals and measuring progress.

One way to help achieve those goals is for people to monitor their health more regularly.

They are however, the goals that the mentioned innovations should be trying to achieve.

In this sense, vagueness is a useful delusion, a nifty means of remaining committed to long-term goals.

He is keen on family mission statements and regular meetings for a family to discuss its common goals.

Students should also provide a clear explanation of the project and its goals.

For me, boredom is complicated because it depends on your personal psychological state,present goals and many other factors.

The economic downturn will curtail its ability to achieve its goals in the short termIn the current.

Her goals have always been to understand and preserve the chimpanzees.

It is not yet clear what the coalition government's goals in family policy are.

But water experts are agreed that adopting long term goals is imperative.

So hope is, things will go as the government predicts and the two main goals mentioned above achieved.

One of his present goals is to help protect the last pristine marine ecosystems worldwide.

But they also invite disappointment and disillusionment when the goals are missed.

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Word Origin & History

goal

1530s, "end point of a race," perhaps from O.E. *gal "obstacle, barrier," a word implied by gælan "to hinder." The word appears once before this, in a poem from early 14c. Football sense is attested from 1540s.

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