underlying motive

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• motive — n. 1) to establish, find a motive 2) to question smb. s motives 3) altruistic; base; honorable; humane; noble; selfish; ulterior motives; the highest motives (to have nothing but the highest motives) 4) the profit motive 5) an underlying motive… …   Combinatory dictionary

• motive# — motive n 1 Motive, spring, impulse, incentive, inducement, spur, goad all denote a stimulus inciting or prompting a person to act or behave in a definite way. Motive applies chiefly to such an emotion as fear, anger, hatred, or love or to a… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• motive — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ hidden, ulterior ▪ good, strong ▪ I d say he had a very strong motive for wanting her dead. ▪ altruistic, high …   Collocations dictionary

• motive — mo|tive1 [ moutıv ] noun count ** the reason you do something: Her motive was a genuine desire to improve conditions. motive for: The motive for the attack is still unknown. a. used in a negative way for showing that someone s real reasons for… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• motive — I UK [ˈməʊtɪv] / US [ˈmoʊtɪv] noun [countable] Word forms motive : singular motive plural motives ** a) the reason that you do something Her motive was a genuine desire to improve conditions. motive for: The motive for the attack is still unknown …   English dictionary

• underlying — adj. Underlying is used with these nouns: ↑assumption, ↑cause, ↑concept, ↑fundamentals, ↑ideology, ↑logic, ↑meaning, ↑mechanism, ↑message, ↑motivation, ↑motive, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• Profit Motive — The intent to achieve monetary gain in a transaction or material endeavor. Profit motive can also be construed as the underlying reason why a taxpayer or company participates in business activities of any kind. Profit motive must be determined… …   Investment dictionary

• vocabularies of motive — A concept outlined by the literary critic Kenneth Burke as one of his five dramatistic terms: who, what, when, where, and why? The term was first developed sociologically by C. Wright Mills (in American Sociological Review. 1944) to capture the… …   Dictionary of sociology

• underlie — 01. A solid belief in social justice [underlies] this party s entire political philosophy. 02. You ll need to find the [underlying] cause of the problem before you can hope to find any solution. 03. A doctor s [underlying] belief system will… …   Grammatical examples in English

• fundamental — adj 1 Fundamental, basic, basal, underlying, radical are comparable when they mean forming or affecting the groundwork, roots, or lowest part of something. Fundamental is used chiefly in reference to immaterial things or to abstractions, whether… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

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