goal

Definition

  • noun: something that you are trying to do or achieve
  • noun: the terminal point of a race

Examples

  • The workers scored an 'own goal' by demanding such high wages that no one could afford to employ them.

  • After playing the first half, both teams were still 'goalless'. [=neither team had scored a goal]

  • The company has instituted several new policies with the 'goal' of reducing waste.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Not as long as I'm governor. Now, I stand here today in the cradle of the Confederacy to remind its people of our Founding Fathers' goals of duty. Goals long since forgotten by progressives and liberals in favor of what they call a changing world. They seek to make us one mongrel unit. (..)
    2014 Selma