a means to an end
C2 something that you do because it will help you to achieve something else:
I didn't particularly like the job - it was just a means to an end.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of achieving things
- actively
- another
- avenue
- basis
- best practice
- channel
- fair
- jump
- mean
- medium
- modality
- modus operandi
- one way or another idiom
- one-handed
- open sesame
- resort
- shortcut
- vein
- whereby
- workings
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