intendin‧tend /ɪnˈtend/ ●●● S2 W1 verb [transitive] 
I intend to spend the night there.intend somebody/something to do something I didn’t intend her to see the painting until it was finished. I never intended things to turn out the way they did.intend that It is intended that these meetings will become a regular event.intend doing something We intend looking at the situation again. I fully intend (=definitely intend) to return home next year.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say plan to do something or plan on doing something, rather than intend to do something or intend doing something:· I plan to spend the night there.· I didn’t plan on things taking so long. OR I didn’t plan for things to take so long.2be intended for somebody/something to be provided or designed for a particular person or purpose: The book is intended for children aged 5–7.3intended target/victim/destination etc the person, thing, result etc that an action is intended to affect or reach: It seems likely that General Rogers was the killer’s intended victim.THESAURUSintend to do something to have decided that you want to do something at some time in the future: · He intends to appeal against the decision.be going to do something especially spoken to intend to do something – used when you have made definite arrangements to do it: · We’re going to have a meeting about it next week.· I’m going to start karate lessons.mean to do something especially spoken to intend to do something – used especially when you forget to do something or when something does not happen in the way you intended: · I’ve been meaning to call you for ages.· Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.plan to do something to intend to do something – used especially when you have thought carefully about how and when you will do it: · The airline plans to start flights to Thailand in July.· Jane and Rob are planning to get married next year.set out to do something to intend to do something – used when someone is very determined and knows clearly what they want to do: · He set out to make a movie that would challenge people’s prejudices.aim to do something to intend to do something – used when saying what someone hopes to achieve: · We aim to finish the work by next week.· The film aims to explain global warming and what people can do about it.propose to do something formal to intend to do something – used when saying what someone suggests doing: · How do you propose to deal with the situation?have somebody/something in mind to imagine that something is the kind of thing that you want to happen, or that someone is the person you want to choose: · ‘How about going out for a pizza?’ ‘That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.’· Who do you have in mind?have no intention of doing something to have decided that you will definitely not do something: · Tom has no intention of retiring just yet.· The government has no intention of lifting the ban.
WORD ORIGINintend
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French entendre ‘to have as a purpose’, from Latin intendere ‘to stretch out, have as a purpose’, from tendere ‘to stretch’VERB TABLE
intend
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | intend |
| he, she, it | intends | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | intended |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have intended |
| he, she, it | has intended | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had intended |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will intend |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have intended |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am intending |
| he, she, it | is intending | |
| you, we, they | are intending | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was intending |
| you, we, they | were intending | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been intending |
| he, she, it | has been intending | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been intending |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be intending |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been intending |
THESAURUS
to have decided that you want to do something at some time in the future: · He intends to appeal against the decision.
especially spoken to intend to do something – used when you have made definite arrangements to do it: · We’re going to have a meeting about it next week.· I’m going to start karate lessons.
especially spoken to intend to do something – used especially when you forget to do something or when something does not happen in the way you intended: · I’ve been meaning to call you for ages.· Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.
to intend to do something – used especially when you have thought carefully about how and when you will do it: · The airline plans to start flights to Thailand in July.· Jane and Rob are planning to get married next year.
to intend to do something – used when someone is very determined and knows clearly what they want to do: · He set out to make a movie that would challenge people’s prejudices.
to intend to do something – used when saying what someone hopes to achieve: · We aim to finish the work by next week.· The film aims to explain global warming and what people can do about it.
formal to intend to do something – used when saying what someone suggests doing: · How do you propose to deal with the situation?
to imagine that something is the kind of thing that you want to happen, or that someone is the person you want to choose: · ‘How about going out for a pizza?’ ‘That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.’· Who do you have in mind?
to have decided that you will definitely not do something: · Tom has no intention of retiring just yet.· The government has no intention of lifting the ban.
Longman Language Activatorto intend to do something if you intend to do something, you have decided that you want to do it at some time in the future: · I wasn't sure why he'd done it, but I intended to find out.· Most of these students intend to continue their education at university.· Her lawyers stated that they intended to call at least five witnesses.
especially spoken to intend to do something - use this especially when you forget to do something or did not have the chance to do it: · I've been meaning to phone Anne for ages.· I meant to tell you, but I forgot.· Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you.
especially spoken if you are going to do something, you have arranged to do it at a particular time - use this to talk about definite arrangements: · Ruth and Al are going to move to Seattle.· I'm going to go to the hospital tomorrow.· The committee is going to have several meetings to get student input.
to intend to do something - use this especially when you have thought carefully about when and how you will do something: · Josie's planning to return to work after she's had the baby.· We're planning to go on vacation in October.· The Board plans to release the report to the press on Sept. 11.
informal to intend to achieve something that you are sure you can achieve: · The company is looking to increase its sales in Europe during the next two years.· The Redskins will be looking to repeat their Super Bowl victory next season.
to decide to do something and make plans for how you will achieve it, especially in a very determined way: · He set out to make Newcastle the best football team in the country.· The new administration set out to develop a better immigration policy.
informal to intend to do something and be determined to succeed: · A young man from Norway is out to be the youngest person ever to finish the race.· Manchester United are out to win the European Cup this year.be out to get somebody (=to intend to do something that harms someone else): · Brock believes that Aaronson is out to ruin his reputation.
formal use this in public statements, news reports, meetings etc in order to tell people what someone intends to do: · It is our intention to become the number one distributor of health products in the UK.· It was never the department's intention to prevent teachers from trying out new ideas.
use this especially in legal contexts about someone who deliberately intends to do something bad: do something with intent to do something: · Kelly was accused of carrying a deadly weapon with intent to endanger life.· He is charged with using a false name with intent to commit fraud.
to not intend to do something if you do not intend to do something, you have decided that you will not do it: · She had not intended to speak at the meeting, but felt she had to.· I haven't seen the film, and I don't intend to.
especially spoken use this to say that, although you did something, you did not do it deliberately: · They hadn't meant to stay out so late.· Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you.
formal if you have no intention of doing something, you have firmly decided that you will definitely not do it: · Mr Brown announced that he had no intention of resigning.· The deadline is unreasonable, and they have no intention of trying to meet it.
if you have no plans to do something, you have not made a decision to do it, although you may decide to do it at a later time: · She has no plans to retire.· He has lived in Thailand for five years, and does not have any plans to go back to the States.
especially spoken to not really intend to do something that you have said that you will do: · He keeps saying he's going to quit, but I don't think he's serious.not be serious about: · Critics said the government wasn't serious about the environment.you can't be serious spoken (=say this when you are surprised about what someone has said they intend to do): · You can't be serious about moving to New Orleans.
something that you intend to do also intent formal · Army leaders could not guess at the enemy's movements or intentions.intention to do something · The government announced its intention to create 50,000 jobs by the end of the year.with the intention of doing something · Bouvier returned to Europe with the intention of gathering further support for his cause.have every intention of doing something (=use this to emphasize that someone intends to do something) · The lawyers had every intention of calling Smythe to the witness stand.
formal what you intend to do: · The intent of the change was to give local officials more power to make decisions.intent to do something: · It is not my intent to deny the value of university education.with intent (=having the intention to do something - used in legal contexts): · He was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to sell.
to tell someone what you intend to do to let someone know what you intend to do, especially when you think that they do not expect it or will not like it: · The Senator has decided to run for president, and made his intentions known in a public statement Tuesday.· People who want to donate their organs after their deaths should make their intentions clear.
informal to tell someone exactly what you intend to do, especially when you have kept it a secret before: · If they're willing to put all their cards on the table and negotiate, that's good.· If we want to reach an agreement, we'll have to lay all our cards on the table.
intending to be helpful or kind, but causing problems to try to be helpful or kind, but really only cause problems for someone or annoy them: · The doctor meant well, but he was not really listening to me.· She means well, but she's a bit tactless.
intending to be helpful, but not able to achieve anything useful: · Well-meaning relatives gave me all kinds of advice.· Even well-meaning parents cannot protect their children from everything.
if you have good intentions , you think of doing something helpful or kind, but often never do it: · Good intentions are not enough. Make an exercise programme for yourself and keep to it.· The department's good intentions have been buried under a mountain of rules and paperwork.
an action or a statement that is well-meant or well-intentioned is intended to be kind or helpful, but either does not help at all, insults someone, or causes harm: · Recent changes in housing policy, though well-meant, have done more harm than good.· Well-intentioned grandparents sometimes interfere with a mother's way of bringing up her children.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY It is intended that these meetings will become a regular event. I fully intend (=definitely intend) to return home next year.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
It is intended that these meetings will become a regular event. I fully intend (=definitely intend) to return home next year. (=where someone is trying to go)· Strong winds blew the yacht several miles away from its intended destination.
(=used to show you do not mean to make a joke about something) The clergy prey (no pun intended) on bereaved families.
The clergy prey (no pun intended) on bereaved families.· The gunman missed his intended target.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Branson had fully intended to keep his word on not seeing or communicating with Joan for three months.· Smolan maintains he fully intended to go forward with a book from the time he and Negroponte began discussing it.· The Grange has always been a happy house and still has a faint atmosphere of piety, fully intended by Mr Teulon.· The pair fully intends to be on stage this weekend, returned to all their companions in the salad bowl.· There are massive opportunities for a group like Emap in the digital environment and we fully intend to take them.· After all, the 27-year-old farm worker fully intended to return to work when his 30-minute lunch break was over.· Last night had completely undermined her resolve, though - as he had fully intended it should.
· I never intend to die but to carry on and live for ever!· I never intended to get preachy.· War was never intended to be a drab affair.· The minimum wage is not, and was never intended to be, a basis for supporting families.· I never intended to say a thing about it.· Congress, of course, never intended to suspend $ 50 million dams to prolong the dubious existence of obscure fish.· He had never intended the group to become pop stars - and Rotten's increasingly self-important behaviour was a worry.· The city never intended to run the center permanently.
· She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room.· It was originally intended that couples would register their partnerships in local authority registry offices.· Ironically, the name may carry more meaning than originally intended.· The grave furniture was not all originally intended for Tutankhamun.· He'd bought this new sometime in the summer, and hadn't originally intended to work in it.· That's what I originally intended.· To its critics, it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended.
· So the Megarian decrees had economic effects, and were surely intended to.· And I don't intend to.· So we have to somehow resolve that and to address the issue somehow - and we intend to.· But before I clap eyes on his miserable face, I intend to down as many cups of sack as I can!· Nor had he ever intended to.· He hadn't intended to, but he found himself taking off his jeans and shirt and slipping into the pool.· I don't want to share it with the rest of the bloody world, and I don't intend to.· But I personally haven't set eyes on it and I don't intend to.
NOUN· The first National Government was not intended to be a coalition government in the normal sense of the term.· Do the Government intend to implement an eco-labelling scheme?· Does she acknowledge the concern that exists about that aspect and can she explain what action the Government intend to take?· What do the Government intend to do about that?· By April 1990 the Government intends to replace the system of local rates with a community charge.· The government intends to publish a plan by the end of April for closing down all of the country's uranium mines.· If not, when do the Government intend to have such discussions?· I hope that the Government do not intend to set a national figure that will apply throughout the country.
· Plastics not intended for food use vary: some may leach dye into the water, and some can be toxic.· Her prow, a cast-iron projection weighing 1, 500 pounds, was intended for use as a ram.· These are particularly useful if the sack is intended for group use, or for young people who are still growing.· Rubber and plastic boots are intended for use in very wet places but will not allow the feet to breathe.· Simple quilting or through stitching is only used on cheaper bags which are intended for summer use only.· The prize is intended for use in the school to further interest in chemistry.· Items designed for travel use will have a dual-voltage switch and are intended for use with the relevant plug adaptor.· Anti-asthmatic paint is intended for use in rooms where asthmatics sleep.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- The movie is intended for adults.
- Fakhru told him that the milk was intended for the Faklarn Famine Fund.
- Her prow, a cast-iron projection weighing 1, 500 pounds, was intended for use as a ram.
- In some areas, she says, food is being shared among twice the number of people it was intended for.
- Self-reliance was the lesson, but it was intended for those too young to understand it.
- Some past and current government officials say the program was intended for defensive purposes only.
- The possibility raised there is intended for the Cartesians to deal with.
- This award is intended for those people whose work involves freight documentation in any of the four sectors.
- Whether they were intended for public display is in doubt.
- After they failed to find their intended victim, they embarked on an indiscriminate anti-foreigner rampage.
- Eloise was capable of what almost amounted to mesmerism, so thoroughly did she take in her intended victims.
- It can not move and shoot in the same turn, except that it can be turned to face its intended target.
- Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim.
- Satisfied his intended victim was asleep, he gripped the door handle and turned it slowly.
- Was the call-girl the intended victim?
- We are near our intended target and head directly there with a vector supplied from above, but we find nothing.
- What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?
WORD FAMILYadjectiveintended ≠ unintendedintentional ≠ unintentionalintentnounintentintentionverbintendadverbintentionally ≠ unintentionally
1to have something in your mind as a plan or purposeintend to do something I intend to spend the night there.intend somebody/something to do something I didn’t intend her to see the painting until it was finished. I never intended things to turn out the way they did.intend that It is intended that these meetings will become a regular event.intend doing something We intend looking at the situation again. I fully intend (=definitely intend) to return home next year.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say plan to do something or plan on doing something, rather than intend to do something or intend doing something:· I plan to spend the night there.· I didn’t plan on things taking so long. OR I didn’t plan for things to take so long.2be intended for somebody/something to be provided or designed for a particular person or purpose: The book is intended for children aged 5–7.3intended target/victim/destination etc the person, thing, result etc that an action is intended to affect or reach: It seems likely that General Rogers was the killer’s intended victim.THESAURUSintend to do something to have decided that you want to do something at some time in the future: · He intends to appeal against the decision.be going to do something especially spoken to intend to do something – used when you have made definite arrangements to do it: · We’re going to have a meeting about it next week.· I’m going to start karate lessons.mean to do something especially spoken to intend to do something – used especially when you forget to do something or when something does not happen in the way you intended: · I’ve been meaning to call you for ages.· Sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you.plan to do something to intend to do something – used especially when you have thought carefully about how and when you will do it: · The airline plans to start flights to Thailand in July.· Jane and Rob are planning to get married next year.set out to do something to intend to do something – used when someone is very determined and knows clearly what they want to do: · He set out to make a movie that would challenge people’s prejudices.aim to do something to intend to do something – used when saying what someone hopes to achieve: · We aim to finish the work by next week.· The film aims to explain global warming and what people can do about it.propose to do something formal to intend to do something – used when saying what someone suggests doing: · How do you propose to deal with the situation?have somebody/something in mind to imagine that something is the kind of thing that you want to happen, or that someone is the person you want to choose: · ‘How about going out for a pizza?’ ‘That wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.’· Who do you have in mind?have no intention of doing something to have decided that you will definitely not do something: · Tom has no intention of retiring just yet.· The government has no intention of lifting the ban.