objective1 nounobjective2 adjective
objectiveob‧jec‧tive1 /əbˈdʒektɪv/ ●●○ S3 W3 AWL noun [countable] 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- State your business objectives clearly.
- The objective of this computer game is to design a city.
- The 4th Division's objective was a town 20 miles to the east.
- The company's main objective is to keep recyclable material out of landfills.
- The President believes that all military objectives have been achieved.
- The report focused on three of the business's objectives.
- At worst a vague objective should be couched in very precise terms.
- Performance objectives give people the best means to assess and improvise their way through change.
- Program objectives are a major focus of the evaluation model.
- The following is an example of some cognitive objectives for teaching the nursing care of a patient recovering from heart surgery.
- The problem of establishing coherent, explicit and stable objectives for state enterprises applies with particular force to the railways.
- The second objective was met by the introduction of a betterment levy on development value.
- They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
THESAURUS
something you hope to achieve by doing something: · The main aim of the plan was to provide employment for local people.
something important that you hope to achieve in the future, even though it may take a long time: · The country can still achieve its goal of reducing poverty by a third.
a particular amount or total that you want to achieve: · The company is on track to meet its target of increasing profits by 10%.
the specific thing that you are trying to achieve – used especially about things that have been officially discussed and agreed upon in business, politics etc: · Their main objective is to halt the flow of drugs.· We met to set the business objectives for the coming year.
something that you very much want to achieve in your future career: · Her ambition was to go to law school and become an attorney.· Earlier this year, he achieved his ambition of competing in the Olympic Games.
the reason you do something, and the thing you want to achieve when you do it: · What is the purpose of your visit to England?· The plant is used for medicinal purposes.
what you want to achieve when you do something: · The main aims of the project are as follows.· Their ultimate aim is to find a cure for cancer.
something that you hope to achieve in the future, even though this may take a long time: · It took Mandela over forty years to achieve his goal of a democratic South Africa.· the goal of ending child poverty
something that you are working hard to achieve, especially in business or politics: · The bank achieved its objective of increasing its share of the market.· The government’s long-term objective is to cut CO2 emissions by 50%.
formal the specific purpose of an activity: · The object of the game is to get as many points as possible.· The students will benefit, and that must be the object of the exercise (=the main thing that you are trying to do).
the purpose of doing something and the reason why it is right or necessary: · At fourteen, I couldn’t see the point of going to school.· What’s the point in waiting? (=I don’t think it is useful or necessary)
the purpose that you have in your mind when you do something: · He kept his real intentions well hidden.· Although we made a lot of money, this wasn’t our original intention.
the result that someone is trying to achieve – used especially when you disapprove of what someone is doing: · They are using religion for political ends.· The ends do not justify the means (=you should not use violence, cruelty, dishonest behaviour etc to achieve your aims).
Longman Language Activatorwhat you want to achieve when you do something the reason you do or plan something, and the thing you want to achieve when you do it: · The games have an educational purpose.purpose of: · The purpose of the experiment is to find better ways of treating battlefield wounds.the main purpose (=the most important purpose): · The main purpose of the meeting is to discuss who will be in the team.somebody's purpose in doing something: · My purpose in writing this book was to draw attention to the problem of global warming.for the purpose of (doing) something: · There is no penalty if the quarterback deliberately throws the ball out of bounds for the purpose of stopping play.for this/that purpose: · Read up on starting a small business. Loans can be obtained for this purpose.
something you hope to achieve: · Increasing student awareness of the issue is one of our aims.political/business/economic etc aim: · Membership of NATO is one of the country's long-term political aims.the aim is to do something: · The organization's aims are to provide food for homeless people and help them find somewhere to live.· The aim was to enroll all children in schools close to their homes.aim of: · The aim of the bombers was to destroy public property and get maximum publicity.
the purpose of something that you are doing or planning - use this especially when someone does not understand what the purpose is: point of: · The point of the experiment is to show how this chemical reacts with water.the whole point (=exactly the purpose of doing something): · The whole point of this TV show is to get you to buy Simmons' exercise videos.see the point of something (=understand why someone does something): · I can't see the point of travelling all that way and then only staying for one day.miss the/somebody's point (=not understand why someone does something): · You're missing my point completely - I'm not talking about restructuring the departmentwhat's the point? (=use this when you think there is no good reason for something): · Too many of these kids think, "What's the point of going to college?"
the effect or result that you hope to achieve by doing something - use this especially when you are doubtful whether that effect or result can be achieved: · We make toys that are both fun and educational - at least that's the idea.the idea is to do something: · The idea of the centre was to provide a place where old people could go during the day.the idea behind something: · The idea behind the commercials is that reading is as cool and entertaining as their favorite bands.
formal the thing that someone is trying to achieve, especially in business or politics: · The report focused on three of the business's objectives.business/military/political objective: · State your business objectives clearly.the objective is to do something: · The objective of this computer game is to design a city.achieve an objective: · The President believes that all military objectives have been achieved.main/primary objective: · The company's main objective is to keep recyclable material out of landfills.
the intended result of a plan, action, or activity, especially when this may be difficult to achieve: the object is to do something: · In this game the object is to score as many points as you can in the time given.object of: · The object of the search was to find a small plane that has been missing for two days.the object of the exercise (=the object of whatever you are doing): · The object of the exercise is to keep kids in school, rather than let them leave without graduating.
what a person, organization, or country hopes to achieve in the future, even though this might take quite a long time: · School children have definite goals towards which they can work.the goal is to do something: · Her goal is to find a company willing to donate money for research.goal of: · The goal of the partnership is to improve his company's profit margin.reach/meet a goal: · The Red Cross has reached its goal of raising $1.6 million for relief.
the exact result that a person or organization intends to achieve by doing something, often the amount of money they want to get: · The target for the appeal is £20,000, all of which will go to children's charities.· Our target is the release of all political prisoners.meet/reach/achieve a target: · The government is struggling to reach its original target of $23 billion in spending cuts.
the result that a person or group is trying to achieve, especially when this is bad or dishonest: political/personal etc ends: · Racial tensions in Fiji were exaggerated for political ends by leaders of the opposition.the end does not justify the means (=the way that someone tries to achieve something is wrong, even if what they want to achieve is good): · The demonstrators' ends do not justify their means.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYverbs
It is their declared intention to increase taxes. an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals The scheme does not meet its objectives. Their primary objective is to make money. Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference. Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1something that you are trying hard to achieve, especially in business or politics SYN goal: · Our main objective is to reduce road accidents.
(=decide what you are trying to achieve)· Pupils should be encouraged to set their own objectives.
(also attain an objective formal)· The policy should help us achieve our objective of reducing paper waste.
(=achieve an objective)· We need to control spending in order to meet our financial objectives.
(=try to achieve something you want)· War has always been a means of pursuing national objectives.
adjectives· This research project has three main objectives.
(=the main one)· The primary objective of training is to improve performance.
(=a very important objective)· Their economic strategy was based on a number of key objectives.
· A manager must give his team clear objectives to work towards.
· Most classroom activities have a specific learning objective.
(=what someone says their objective is)· The city’s stated objective was to improve housing in the area.
(=one that people, countries etc share)· Our employees have a sense of common objectives and their commitment is high.
· We have made good progress towards meeting our business objectives.
phrases (=all the things someone wants to achieve)· The department should clearly state its aims and objectives.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=the things you hope to achieve)· These aims and objectives are set out in chapters two and three.
(=that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs)· The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.
(=that is based on fact and not opinion)· The label of 'carer' was defined by the objective criterion of someone who spends more than seven hours looking after someone.
It is their declared intention to increase taxes. an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals (=one that is not influenced by your opinions or feelings)· The test provides an objective measurement of the student’s listening skills.
The scheme does not meet its objectives.· How can we best achieve our policy objectives?
Their primary objective is to make money.· She was known to be ruthless in pursuing her goals.
Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference. Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.· Overlaying local objectives are broader, system-wise objectives, for example efficiency objectives.· Restructuring must coincide with the broader Community objectives, and Community funds must be matched by national funds.
· The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team.· They are more open as to style and time deadlines, but still have fairly clear purposes and objectives for their organization.· Teachers and students will appreciate the clear objectives and simple layout.· A clear objective was set and adhered to: recapture the islands.· By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.· Indeed, the concept of success could scarcely apply since it worked to no clear objectives.· If purposeful, goal-directed activity is to take place, clear objectives need to be set for all the organisation's activities.· Finally, the purpose of this section has been to help teachers write clear objectives.
· Although part of the same expedition, Gould's and Sturt's different objectives led them to work independently.· Personnel managers realized that their new mission demanded different performance objectives.· The time-scales over which different objectives should be achieved may vary considerably, depending on the level at which they are applied.· These pressures reflect two quite different objectives.· Within these initiatives, different objectives, participants, funding arrangements, and approaches have been identified.· Reconciliation implies the need to achieve harmony by making different objectives compatible.· Thus Stiglitz sees the control problem as a multiple-principal-single- agent problem with each principal having a somewhat different objective.· The public service broadcasters and the commercial broadcasters increasingly have different objectives.
· The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives, e.g. full employment or price stability.· The response of most governments has been to manipulate the economy in order to secure some trade-off between the conflicting economic objectives.· Second, analysis was carried out of the existing capabilities of the Management Committee with regard to what might be appropriate economic objectives for them.· Particular attention was directed to the lack of accordance between bargaining outcomes and national, economic policy objectives.· We believe development plans are a vital means of securing the integrated approach to environmental and economic objectives which the guidance seeks.· There would be no need for a choice between economic objectives if they were all uniformly related to one controllable variable.· The reader is referred to Chapter 12 for a more thorough discussion of the compatibility of these economic objectives.
· There was also an environmental objective - to maintain a proper balance between human needs and the natural environment.· We ask how we can make environmental objectives tie in with business objectives - which means profit.· Your help in achieving the environmental objectives is vital in ensuring the greening of the whole Company.· We believe development plans are a vital means of securing the integrated approach to environmental and economic objectives which the guidance seeks.· Admittedly the focus is changing from production support to measures designed to meet social and environmental objectives.· They should be seen as complementary contributions to the wider management of our transport, environmental and social objectives.
· This illustrates the important link between objectives and assessment.· Another important objective of financial statement analysis is to develop a reasonable basis for forecasting the future.· They are followed by a very important affective objective.· We must not allow all these important objectives to be imperiled during the hurly-burly of budget negotiations.· An important objective in counselling is to help the older individual live for today rather than for an uncertain tomorrow.· Describe why it is important to set objectives in the firm and comment on the problems of setting objectives.· An important objective of the Centre will be to elucidate these relationships.· Strategic objectives Pearl's invitation to tender set out several important objectives.
· This is still a key financial objective.· What are the key objectives for your company over the next one to five years? 8.· This strategy was based on a number of key objectives.· Their solution was of course a key objective of the Powick project, which was still at an early operational stage in 1979.· This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.· The county council's Social Services committee endorsed the paper's key objectives at their meeting last week.· He added that it was important that key educational objectives were addressed from the start.
· It is to help us reach our organization's main objectives.· The main objective is to find a solution agreeable to the company in terms of its feasibility and cost.· Management critique Hates repetitiveness; focuses on the main objectives, rather than on getting details of individual tasks right.· At this stage his main objective was to catch a wave all the way into the beach.· If the main objective is vertical equity, the ability to pay. principle must usually take precedence.· His main summer objective, as usual, was to get through to his holiday.· Its main municipal objectives were efficient and accountable administration based on political and administrative decentralisation.
· The major objective of the study is therefore to investigate empirically the strategic behaviour of such firms.· As a result the protection of the environment is one of our major objectives.· A successful system for evaluating work-inhibited students must accomplish two major objectives.· Hence security of supply continues to be a major objective of Community energy policy.· Conformity with the group is still a major objective.· The major objective of the counsellor, especially the counsellor who actively seeks to combat ageism, is to encourage involvement.· Some of its politicians were backward-looking in that their major objectives were to remedy inter-war problems.
· All succeeded in meeting most of their local and national objectives of moving people into the community.· It represents the germ of an idea which someday might explode into a national objective.· Subjects depend on each other. National objectives postulate certain contents.· This matter must not be singled out in a way that allows it to be used to override National Park objectives.
· The overall objective of these measures is to facilitate trade.· The overall objective of waste minimization is applied to each specific design case.· Effective study implies some deeper reflection about overall educational objectives as well as the structure and content of human learning.· The overall objective is to make the ski rock backwards slightly.· This may also indicate preparatory drill in reading skills and the handling of information sources. 2. Overall aims and objectives.· In real terms these overall objectives have been translated into a series of major development projects.· They work together to achieve the overall objectives of the organization.· Liphook are strongly backed this year to achieve their overall objective of bringing Southern League cricket to Ripsley Park in 1993.
· Rather, we claim, it is the political objective of removing local government's autonomy that is at issue.· The first type, associational interest groups, are organized specifically to further political objectives of the groups' members.· In the 1940s the official press had stated that economic goals would be subordinate to political objectives.· The most direct methods to achieve political objectives involve some form of political action.· To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.· Second, political objectives can not be as clearly specified as the scientific or rational model seems to demand.· At any rate, non-violence was on its way to becoming a political objective, not merely a moral one.· For more than 100 years, the left saw the powerful, interventionist state as the means to deliver its political objectives.
· The seizure of power in the capital had been the rebels' primary objective since 18 July.· Take, for example, the principle of keeping performance results as the primary objective of behavior and skill change.· At the Foundation of the Government's policy lies the primary objective of competition.· Performance is the primary objective of design changes.· But it is desirable to know, in one's own mind at least, what is the primary objective.· Making all-city in track is one of the primary objectives.· I mentioned the primary objective of reducing the number of road casualties.· Keep performance results the primary objective of behavior and skill change.
· This instituted a partnership between central and local government with both having as a prime objective the promotion of the education service.· So more and more families moved to the suburbs, with better schools their prime objective.· Ability in the techniques of good management should be a prime objective of all surveyors.· Your prime objective should assist you in coming to terms with the most limiting aspect of verbal presentations.· Their prime objective was to learn, and it was easy to create a fun learning environment.· This was the prime objective and the closing of the card catalogue was a consequence.· The prime objective was to keep plateau production going for as long as possible through increased recovery and satellites.· Nevertheless, the prime objective of forest management remains that of timber production.
· Its principal objectives include the promotion of health and safety, the protection of the environment and the establishment of quality standards.· The principal objective of the scheme is to provide each of the fourteen candidates with a 12-month commitment to his appropriate squad.· His principal objective was to clear his name of the suspicion attached to it.
· The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives, e.g. full employment or price stability.· What we have just witnessed is the importance of having a very specific objective.· Chapter 2 identified the five specific objectives of the project: 1.· Disobedience has to be organized, and it has to have both a specific target and a specific objective.· Again, however, a specific objective needs to be established and a suitable tax instrument selected.· Decisions about the effectiveness and appropriateness of different behaviours can only be made within the context of particular situations and specific objectives.· The specific objective of this paper is to show that these children have the worst mortality record of any social group.· A Directive binds member states to certain specific objectives, but leaves them to implement the necessary measures through national laws.
· Every research study needs to be assessed on the criterion of whether it measures up to its own stated objectives.· Well stated objectives often suggest the activity necessary to accomplish them.· Occupation policy had two stated objectives: demilitarization and democratization.· This is, unashamedly, a policy of relegating by expediency rather than by any stated objectives.· So, for instance, Taylor and Urquhart found that the cost of relegating by expediency rather than by stated objectives.· It is important to plan the evaluation process at the outset so that it relates to the stated objectives.· There can hardly ever have been a piece of legislation that has so utterly failed to achieve its stated objectives.
· It is this personhood which is the Monster's ultimate objective.· There was one significant qualification; emancipation was the ultimate objective.· My ultimate objective is complete debt cancellation.· The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments.· Then they should establish sets of year-by-year targets, the achievement of which will carry them forward towards their ultimate objectives.
NOUN· We ask how we can make environmental objectives tie in with business objectives - which means profit.· This strategic approach aims to optimise information and technology as valuable resources to achieve the key business objectives of the corporation.· Training is available in telephone skills, letter writing, handling meetings or presentations, to help you meet your business objectives.· In consequence we have developed restrictive practices and engineering, at best, are only partially aware of the business objectives.· We welcome visits to the College to discuss individual nominations and to identify personal development needs related to business objectives.
· How successful will this policy objective be?· Particular attention was directed to the lack of accordance between bargaining outcomes and national, economic policy objectives.· Some of the ways in which bureaux have carried out this policy objective are described here.· It is politicians who tend to determine and legislate for policy objectives.· The other main aggregates are dealt with in the next chapter where the major macroeconomic policy objectives are discussed.· The Group Occupational Hygienist has responsibility for monitoring the environment and policing systems to comply with the policy objectives.· The centrality of full employment as a policy objective is electorally expedient too.· Griffiths regarded central government leadership in establishing policy objectives as crucial.
VERB· The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective.· Would another strategy accomplish the same objective at lower costs?· Perhaps her plan had accomplished its objective after all.· We do not agree, however, that the trimester approach is necessary to accomplish this objective.· We can see that managers do indeed use power strategies to accomplish their objectives, and they can clearly articulate them.· A successful system for evaluating work-inhibited students must accomplish two major objectives.· Anti-aircraft fire was intense but largely ineffectual, and we quickly accomplished our objectives.
· The regulation of money supply may be used by governments to achieve specific economic objectives, e.g. full employment or price stability.· Expressions of power often reflect honest differences between people seeking to achieve their work-related objectives.· To achieve these objectives 90 percent of the Fund's resources were allocated to vocational training.· The most direct methods to achieve political objectives involve some form of political action.· Your performance against your job description and progress made towards achieving your objectives will be reviewed on a regular basis.· Further, the most powerful individuals or groups or functions are usually the most important in achieving the organization's objectives.· Suppliers are expected to propose one or more strategies which will achieve the objectives described in this document.· White could achieve the same objectives and avoid the loss of his c3 pawn by playing 37 d3.
· The continuation of farming is not so much the objective of the Directive but the means to attain its objectives.· Efficiency relates to the cost in resources of attaining objectives.· The more uncertain and defensive you are, the more difficult it will be to attain your objectives.· We also object to flagrant waste, particularly of resources devoted to attaining our primary objectives.· When their motivations are strong and their targets clear, they are capable of going to incredible lengths to attain their objectives.
· Identify your problem area and define your objectives briefly and coherently in written form. 4.· So, it is necessary to define objectives, plan for them, and monitor progress.
· A third series is being developed with the same objective.· Setting Objectives One of the most important elements in the planning and evaluation process is developing sound objectives.
· It is therefore necessary to establish the limited objectives of the index at the outset.· The use of needs assessment to establish measurable objectives and establish goals. 3.· Policy maker and planner: determining values, establishing aims and objectives, prioritising and communicating them. 6.
· Chapter 2 identified the five specific objectives of the project: 1.· They also highlight the necessity to continuously identify the objectives and learning outcomes of the course.· The client should identify those objectives as a matter of course in the relevant engagement documentation.· The second aim of the project was to identify how training objectives are being met in practice.· Finally, the formulation stage involves using the results of the assessment process to identify objectives, plans, and strategies.· Planning and control 2.1 How should the organisation identify its objectives and set targets for achievement?· I begin by identifying those objectives which - I hope he agrees - the hon. Gentleman and his party share.
· The range is 1.5 percent of base salary for meeting one or two objectives to 5 percent for five or more.· There is also general recognition that for many years prisons have failed to meet these objectives.· How does the actual cost compare with the planned cost for meeting the objective?· I hope and believe that we shall be able to meet that objective.· By virtue of our respective positions in the organization, you can tell me to meet certain performance objectives.· Wherever possible non-destructive approaches outlined earlier should be used to meet research objectives in preference to excavation.· If you have met this objective, fine.
· By providing clear goals and objectives, it minimises frustration and wasted effort. 4.· This would ensure services are provided in line with government objectives.· Face-to-face situations provide the context, objectives spell out the desirable end and behaviours are the means.
· Despite their growing unpopularity, the Laudian bishops continued to pursue their objectives with great vigour throughout the 1630s.· We need to learn the lessons of history and pursue our goals and objectives with a single-minded purpose heretofore unknown.· By contrast, recent partnerships have both parties equally active in pursuing their problematical objectives.· To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.· At no time can I remember ever being stopped from pursuing an objective which was of ultimate potential gain to the company.· Obviously it is not a matter of pursuing both objectives at the same time.· Furthermore, if firms pursue objectives other than profit maximisation then the picture becomes even less clear-cut.
· Obviously they need to be countered and an objective must be set.· The first step in project management is to set a measurable objective.· If you set unobtainable objectives you will be seen to have failed even if you do a wonderful job.· The board annually will set performance objectives for the superintendent and he will receive bonuses based on how many he meets.· Assessing community care needs in their localities, setting objectives and priorities and formulating community care plans. 2.· First we identify our target and set a measurable objective that states from where to where by when.· They do not set themselves objectives to achieve.· Shaper: pushes the team towards action, sets objectives and looks for outcomes; dominant, extrovert and anxious.
· Above all, there is the same advantage in stating objectives in behavioral terms.· Few are willing to take the risk of pursuing major new opportunities that are not covered by their stated objectives.· Clearly stating objectives will be a great help in making methods systematic.· The development of overall program goals to be achieved by clearly stated objectives which relate to teacher needs and expectations. 3.· The problem should be clearly and explicitly defined, and the relationship to health should be stated. 2. State objectives.· But a California appeals court found that the club had different purposes than its stated objectives and upheld the school regulations.· Mildara has a stated objective of obtaining an annual return of 15 % on shareholder equity.
He vowed to achieve certain objectives before the end of his presidency. the best way to accomplish your objectives The degree program has two main objectives. Managers should set specific performance objectives for their teams. The main objective was to improve children’s knowledge of geography. A clear objective was set and adhered to. One of your first business objectives should be to get your own office.► see thesaurus at aim, purpose2a place that you are trying to reach, especially in a military attack: The 4th Division’s objective was a town 20 miles to the east.COLLOCATIONSverbshave an objective· Our main objective is to reduce road accidents.set an objective (=decide what you are trying to achieve)· Pupils should be encouraged to set their own objectives.achieve/accomplish an objective (also attain an objective formal)· The policy should help us achieve our objective of reducing paper waste.reach/meet an objective (=achieve an objective)· We need to control spending in order to meet our financial objectives.pursue an objective (=try to achieve something you want)· War has always been a means of pursuing national objectives.adjectivesthe main/principal objective· This research project has three main objectives.the primary/prime objective (=the main one)· The primary objective of training is to improve performance.a key objective (=a very important objective)· Their economic strategy was based on a number of key objectives.a clear objective· A manager must give his team clear objectives to work towards.a specific objective· Most classroom activities have a specific learning objective.a stated objective (=what someone says their objective is)· The city’s stated objective was to improve housing in the area.a common objective (=one that people, countries etc share)· Our employees have a sense of common objectives and their commitment is high.an economic/military/business/political etc objective· We have made good progress towards meeting our business objectives.phrasesaims and objectives (=all the things someone wants to achieve)· The department should clearly state its aims and objectives.objective1 nounobjective2 adjective
objectiveobjective2 ●○○ AWL adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- objective reality
- I could use an objective opinion on this problem.
- It's always difficult to be objective about such a sensitive issue as abortion.
- Originally, I went to the counselor because I needed an objective opinion about the whole situation.
- Sometimes it's hard to be objective when the situation gets emotional.
- the objective case
- The selection board, which decides on promotions, should be strictly objective.
- There are no objective signs of injury on the body.
- Both relatively objective and relatively subjective criteria present other problems.
- But how does this allow a study of style that is objective and exact?
- But it does little to show how the subjective and objective aspects of colour are related.
- I have decided that I should try to be objective instead, and reflect for a moment.
- Is there such a thing as objective reporting?
- The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.
- The interests of the shareholders become an objective standard to govern the actions of the directors.
Longman Language Activatorable to be fair because you are not involved in a situation
not influenced by personal opinions or emotions, especially when you have to make a decision about something: · I could use an objective opinion on this problem.· It's always difficult to be objective about such a sensitive issue as abortion.· The selection board, which decides on promotions, should be strictly objective.
able to make fair judgements or decisions about a situation because you do not support anyone who is involved in it: · Historians try to be impartial, but they cannot free themselves entirely from their own opinions.· Our representative attended the peace negotiations as an impartial observer.
not supporting any side in a disagreement, argument, war etc: · Switzerland remained neutral during World War II.· Civil servants are supposed to be politically neutral.
especially spoken to deliberately not support either side in an argument: · Teachers shouldn't take sides when students argue.not take sides in: · It is important that social workers don't take sides in family disputes.
not influenced by personal opinions or a tendency to support a particular person or side, and therefore able to make a fair judgment: · This murder case has had so much media publicity that it will be difficult to find an unbiased jury.· Women need accurate, unbiased information about their options when they become pregnant.
able to be fair in considering a particular situation because you are not involved in it and do not expect to gain any personal advantage from it: · Find a financial consultant who can offer completely independent and disinterested advice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. the importance of a completely objective, independent pressCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It is their declared intention to increase taxes. an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals The scheme does not meet its objectives. Their primary objective is to make money. Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference. Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB
It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. the importance of a completely objective, independent press (=the things you hope to achieve)· These aims and objectives are set out in chapters two and three.
(=that is based on facts, not on feelings or beliefs)· The test results will provide an objective assessment of how much you have improved.
(=that is based on fact and not opinion)· The label of 'carer' was defined by the objective criterion of someone who spends more than seven hours looking after someone.
It is their declared intention to increase taxes. an analysis of how different countries are attempting to fulfill their political goals (=one that is not influenced by your opinions or feelings)· The test provides an objective measurement of the student’s listening skills.
The scheme does not meet its objectives.· How can we best achieve our policy objectives?
Their primary objective is to make money.· She was known to be ruthless in pursuing her goals.
Complete disarmament was the ultimate goal of the conference. Our ultimate objective is to have as many female members of parliament as there are male.· Any comparison between these is dependent upon the further externalization of these values as objective forms.· When you fill out your diary, step outside yourself and be as objective as possible.· These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.· At the meeting, keep your feedback as objective as possible by being specific.· Throughout its search for a solution, Pearl had been determined to be as objective as possible.· Is there such a thing as objective reporting?· It is as objective as the object of which it is a perspectival appearance.· No one who can be as objective about her own thinking processes as you are could be otherwise.
· Nor is it a completely objective evaluation.· But since none of us can be completely objective we have a responsibility to say what our biases are.· It is crucial therefore that these guidelines are followed in all cases: a completely objective approach adopted.
· Opposition Members believe that there should be more objective planning criteria.· Such persons will be much more objective and conscientious critics and that is exactly what you are looking for at this time.· Finally, sociological accounts should be more objective, systematic and potentially verifiable.· There must be more objective standards than that, if shamans as a class are not to expose themselves as downright quacks.· Please write down two or more objective measurements.· It will also give you a more objective idea of how an employer sees you when reading your application form or letter.· Red cell volume would be a more objective indicator of placental transfusion.· In the last few years a more objective method, based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised.
· Even in the most objective environments, the interpretation process may not be easy.· Alvin had given her several names, Lathem told Truitte, but had suggested that he would be the most objective.· Having been almost born there on skis, she is not the most objective judge.
· Obviously, purely objective criteria such as the patient's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon.· Clearly, in Satnam and kindred cases, the purely objective stance which Caldwell has been interpreted to represent has been rejected.
· Critical doubt depends on a myth, the idea that human knowledge is totally objective and neutral.· A good organiser is totally objective, even downright hard-hearted in choosing venue, style, speakers and programme.· The Profitboss is totally objective in making people decisions in business.
NOUN· Even a brief moment of objective analysis reveals that this can not be so.· The Congressional Research Service is an independent agency that offers members of Congress objective analysis of issues and legislation.· The emphasis is on objective analysis of evidence rather than on a subjective impression of any single witness.· And this is what the Davenports wanted-an objective analysis of why their son was having so much difficulty being mature and self-sufficient.· It was established to promote independent, objective analysis and public discussion of open economies and relations among them.· In a world filled with guilt and bitterness, there is no room for self-criticism or objective analysis.
· It also hampers any objective assessment of the value of treatment in these patients.· The implication is that further scientific research will eliminate residual uncertainties, allowing for a more objective assessment of harm.· It uses all sorts of quantitative and qualitative data, and allows all types of subjective and objective assessments.· Seeking a second opinion is strongly advised to obtain an objective assessment.· Listing, in theory, is an objective assessment of architectural or historical importance which does not necessarily prevent demolition.· This has meant that many studies tend to concentrate on the objective assessment of a fiscally quantifiable reality.
· Obviously, purely objective criteria such as the patient's age or the particular illness can not be justified or relied upon.· In clinical trials of Crohn's disease, objective criteria of gut inflammation are desirable, particularly if quantifiable.· No two patients were quite alike and objective criteria were scanty.· How far these variations affected the ability of tenants to sublet is difficult to determine in the absence of objective criteria.
· Structural features of perception, he suggests, might be accessible to objective description even though qualitative aspects are not.· What if language is not a neutral system capable of objective description and analysis?
· Nor is it a completely objective evaluation.· It demands a kind of distance from the observer, an objective evaluation of its virtues and failings.· The extent to which local advisers can undertake an objective evaluation of a school already familiar to them is one consideration.
· These quotations constitute the objective evidence for the existence and currency of the words, meanings, or phrases which they illustrate.· Our last bit of objective evidence, such as it is, concerns those prints on the scullery window.· In patients disabled by severe dysmotility syndromes, however, they sometimes provide the only objective evidence of abnormality.· For the most part, objective evidence to support these claims, in the form of scientific trials, is still lacking.· But the objective evidence is here on his side.· There is objective evidence that something odd did happen near Roswell in 1947.
· But it is not the objective facts that are abnormal, it is the circumstances in which they are observed.· Mostly it was the objective fact that Communism is a rotten system.· The police case does not contain just raw objective facts.· It insists that all research is totally impartial to give readers objective facts about products and services.· The owners' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts.· Supposing the physician can find no tissue damage or that there is an inappropriate relation between objective fact and subjective complaint.· With the former, conformity to objective fact is the standard of reliability.· There is no such thing as an objective fact.
· Class origins are less important than the objective function of serving the interests of the ruling class.· We first observe that T1 is uniquely optimal for the objective function because we would have.· Similarly, there is an objective function which has T2 as its optimal tableau.· In general, we will examine problems having p linear objective functions,, which we wish to maximise subject to linear constraints.· However, the objective function increases if we increase any variable.· To accommodate multiple objectives, we will extend the simplex tableau by including an additional objective row for each objective function.· This involves specifying a goal or target value for the objective function.· The up-pseudo-cost is where is the objective function value of the up-problem.
· In other respects, such as outcome, we have unambiguously objective information.· Lacking objective information on outcomes, they make their decisions largely on political considerations.· Moreover, objective information about the world outside is sometimes obtained in this state.
· To employ Popper's terminology, it is to move from the world of subjective knowledge to the world of objective knowledge.· Research is an attempt to produce objective knowledge, independent of personal viewpoint.
· But what are these objective laws?· This implied that it was possible to construct a rational theory based on these objective laws.
· First the results from the judgment tasks are reported and relationships between these judgments and a variety of objective measures are explored.· Personality trait ratings will be replaced with more objective measures of performance focusing on job-related outcomes and behaviors.· Our objective measures of light intensity would be discarded if they universally gave answers that contradicted our subjective experiences.· But demographers and social scientists also use more objective measures.· The authors used a rise in faecal fat as an objective measure for toxicity.· A variety of more objective measures have traditionally been used as well by teachers.· Perhaps the most surprising of these five failures to find an objective measure of pain is the last.· However, public perception of risk is often at odds with the objective measures used by engineers.
· The assessment of needs is not, therefore, a matter of objective measurement.· Observations of behaviour based on objective measurement will make it possible to produce statements of cause and effect.· For this reason objective measurement is not possible and the exactitude of the natural sciences can not be duplicated.· Please write down two or more objective measurements.· The method is particularly valuable as an objective measurement to assess the response to therapy.
· Psychology also often shuts out female subjects from objective method, and leaves them to more qualitative approaches.· It is the only educational institution in the world that teaches aesthetic appreciation primarily through an objective method of investigation.· In the last few years a more objective method, based on the properties of the material erupted has been devised.· Their attempts to provide more objective methods do not challenge the gender bias involved in psychological notions of objectivity.
· The slightly later and opposing tradition is that of the lexicographer as the objective observer and recorder of language.· The last thing I wanted was to relapse into the role of a patronizing objective observer.· More objective observers regarded the contest as too close to call.· Scientists like to think of themselves as above the fray, or aside the fray, or objective observers of the fray.· Now Gergen is back at U. S. News as a supposedly objective observer.
· What makes the idea of an objective order intelligible?· The possibility of an objective order Both sides in the dispute see the issue of criteria as being of key importance.· Yet none of this is quite sufficient to clarify the concept of an objective order.
· These inner phantasies are projected into the external reality which is then re-incorporated as objective reality.· The subjective experience of individual actors is brought together with the objective reality of public issues.· Did this energy have some objective reality or was it merely a way of looking at known processes from a different viewpoint?· Thus, what is called objective reality is never fully known.· No objective reality means no certainties and that means agnosticism.· Because they describe an objective reality, descriptive core beliefs are simply valid or invalid.· Essentially, we were exploring subjective experiences of work and pointing to the fact that these experiences become objective reality.· It seems clear that, long before phenomenal consciousness of any fort we can recognise existed, there was an objective reality.
· Both are also related to the measures of objective risk.· These descriptions were analysed to calculate a measure of the objective risk of accident at a junction.· Instead the first measure of objective risk, total accident numbers, was chosen as the number for subjects to estimate.
· Unfortunately, not all health professionals take the objective standards of their medical training into their public and political comment.· They provided an objective standard by which we could judge ourselves.· There must be more objective standards than that, if shamans as a class are not to expose themselves as downright quacks.
· If you enjoy games, why not compile a list of objective test questions to use in Trivial Pursuits?· This is an objective test which does not depend upon either the skill or the resources of the particular occupier.· What we need is an objective test that we can apply from the outside to distinguish whether an organism has free will.· But me only objective test of whether an organism has tree will is whether its behavior can be predicted.· The ultimate objective test of free will would seem to be: Can one predict the behavior of the organism?· Instead, the courts will subject the clause to the objective test of reasonableness.· An objective test would be determined by a court.
· We are concerned with three main questions in this work: Do moral judgements possess objective truth or falsehood?· However, it is better to distinguish the issue of objective truth from that of rationality.· Still we must believe in love, just as we must believe in free will and objective truth.
· I can offer an objective view, an informed opinion.· He or she will bring an objective view to team meetings.· They suggest that sociological perspectives are shaped more by historical circumstances than by objective views of the reality of social life.· Tess had a researcher's mind and an objective view.· Antonio was a star dancer and he could not take an objective view of the whole.· Draw conclusions to construct an objective view of the past.· An objective view Choreographers wish to express themselves through dance because a story, theme or music has inspired them.
· In fact a number of sociologists have argued that there is no objective way of measuring the functional importance of positions.· There is certainly no objective way to compute or scientifically analyze a resolution of the disagreements.
· We can not say that there is a separate, solid, objective world which different creatures perceive in different ways.
WORD FAMILYnounobjectivityadjectiveobjectiveadverbobjectively
1based on facts, or making a decision that is based on facts rather than on your feelings or beliefs OPP subjectiveobjective assessment/measurement/description etc It’s hard to give an objective opinion about your own children. Scientists need to be objective when doing research.purely/totally/completely objective the importance of a completely objective, independent press2formal existing outside the mind as something real, not only as an idea: The world has an objective reality.—objectivity /ˌɒbdʒekˈtɪvəti $ ˌɑːb-/ noun [uncountable]