Alternative forms

• goal-orientated (British)

Etymology

From goal +‎ orientedCategory:English compound terms#GOALORIENTED.

Adjective

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1. Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose.
   • 2011, Michael Z. Newman, Indie, An American Film Culture, page 117:

     Like many films of the indie realist strain - and unlike Lost in Translation — Welcome to the Dollhouse eventually abandons its slack, episodic pattern of narration for more goal-oriented suspense.

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