purposive
A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verbA mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb.
UK/ˈpəːpəsɪv/US/ˈpɚpəsɪv/
» These studies make use of purposive sampling.
Anon · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(uncountable)A mood indicating a purpose of the course of activity expressed by the verb.
Examples
1 sentencesThese studies make use of purposive sampling.
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.