goal-oriented

English

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Etymology

From goal +‎ oriented.

Adjective

goal-oriented (comparative more goal-oriented, superlative most goal-oriented)

  1. Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose.
    • 2011, Michael Z. Newman, Indie, An American Film Culture, page 117:
      Like many films of the indie realist strain - and unlike Lost in Translation — Welcome to the Dollhouse eventually abandons its slack, episodic pattern of narration for more goal-oriented suspense.

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