ultimate destination

collocation in English

meaningsofultimateanddestination

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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us
/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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destination
noun[C]
uk
/ˌdes.tɪˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdes.təˈneɪ.ʃən/
the place where someone is going or where something is being sent ...
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(Definition ofultimateanddestinationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theultimatedestinationis never revealed from the starting point.
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This finding suggests that belief in an afterlife represents an established sense of life purpose andultimatedestinationthat is beneficial for coping through suffering.
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This division is far from absolute, but is perhaps explained in some way by theultimatedestinationof their investigations.
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Life is imagined to be a journey or voyage, theultimatedestinationbeing eternity.
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Next, because we do not know exactly how this aid will be used and what its preciseultimatedestinationwill be.
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Human beings are sometimes put into a transit lounge before they go on to theirultimatedestination.
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They can decide whether to get on the bus, but they can have no say in itsultimatedestination.
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It had been difficult to make much progress, mainly owing to the fact that theultimatedestinationof these civilians had been uncertain.
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We find the free passage to the nearest convenient port—nearest to theirultimatedestination.
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This advice includes, where appropriate, consideration of the human rights record of the country ofultimatedestination.
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Under the old custom of this country we have always looked to theultimatedestinationand not to the destination of discharge.
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There is a limit to the amount of information each sign can usefully display to drivers especially at long distances from theirultimatedestination.
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That procedure should enable officials to discover theultimatedestinationof the products.
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It has no relation whatever to theultimatedestinationof the lottery funds themselves.
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In such cases, the question of theultimatedestinationof the property would be the central issue to be decided.
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They are studied very carefully and theirultimatedestinationand treatment are settled in those observation centres.
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Theultimatedestinationof any profits was clearly defined.
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Is there to be any control at all over the rents or over theultimatedestinationof the houses?
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Some of these financial arraneements involve a degree of circularity both in the assessment of grant needs and in theultimatedestinationof the grants.
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The 37 purchasers included dealers, where theultimatedestinationof the animals is unknown, as well as farmers.
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