intention
Example Sentences
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Speculative tickets are offered by resellers who list concert passes they don’t yet have in their possession, with the intention that they will ultimately acquire the tickets and deliver them to the buyer.
From Los Angeles Times
I always had the best of intentions in making this film, but that doesn’t translate into reality, unfortunately.
From Salon
However, it seems that instead of doing that, you left the table without making your intentions clear.
From MarketWatch
This includes the school’s “motivations and intentions for how it handles” student complaints of “antisemitism by faculty and staff.”
Canadian officials say the government has no intention to pursue a free-trade pact with China, although the two countries resolved a trade row involving Chinese electric vehicles and Canadian agricultural products.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.