ultimate end

collocation in English

meaningsofultimateandend

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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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end
noun
uk
/end/us
/end/
the part of a place or thing that is furthest away from ...
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(Definition ofultimateandendfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The traveler can afford to forget hisultimateendwhile focusing on any particular day's goals.
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The objects open to choice are things that are directed toward thisultimateend.
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That my own greatest happiness is a rationalultimateendfor me thus qualifies.
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That is theultimateend.
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Because truth is anultimateendin its own right, there are strict limits to its instrumentalization toward further ends.
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Theultimateendof government and aim of all of morality is 'the advancement of the universal interest'.
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This is not, however, a compelling argument for holding that reason prescribes one's own happiness as anultimateend.
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The second is anultimateend, pursued for its own sake, and not as a means to some higher end.
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Theultimateendis the absolute abolition of night baking.
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Now, of course, we come to theultimateend.
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Is that not theultimateendof capitalistic free enterprise?
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The pursuit of money not only becomes an end in itself, it often becomes theultimateendof our intentions and actions.
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Despite the fact that the protest did not achieve itsultimateend, those who took part felt their voices expressed in music mattered.
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Such commitments give us a sense of meaning or worthwhileness in virtue of the value we take the end (or theultimateend) to have.
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But the will can reject any such subordinate good that is presented to it by the intellect as a contribution to its achieving (or enjoying) itsultimateend.
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In everyday language democracy refers to an ideal, as well as to a set of practices that aim to achieve theultimateendof the ideal.
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His principle makes one's own happiness theultimateend, and hence the supreme end of one's actions, whereas people generally agree only that it is a reasonable end.
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The claim for a limited autonomy of economics from ethics is reinforced by the presence of anultimateend, truth, among the ends directly served by economics.
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Theultimateendto this is getting much more land than is being found at present.
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They constitute reserves properly put aside to meet theultimateendof the colliery.
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We do not know what theultimateendof the new towns will be.
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I know that he is most anxious to preserve every possible element towards thisultimateend.
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Theultimateendof economic policy is to improve the standard of living of ordinary people.
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We believe that theultimateendshould be the elimination of tariffs.
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The mechanics do not matter so much as theultimateend.
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