answer the purpose

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A dictatorship must answer the purpose for which it was introduced.

From Time Magazine Archive

There several of the slender roots seem to slightly project, and they are kept clear of mud or sand so as to answer the purpose of a doorway.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

But by-and-by it appeared that his silence would answer the purpose, for he heard himself apostrophised at last in that tone peculiar to the wife of one's bosom.

From Mathilde Blind by Eliot, George

This was what was done in Chicago, during the days of her calamity, and our people wisely considered that a leaf out of her book would answer the purpose.

From The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 by Stewart, George

The Post Office was, in effect, a barrack, and, except the premises in Lombard Street, there were none in the immediate neighbourhood that would well answer the purpose.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert