goal

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

The object of a person or processes' ambition or effort; the aim or desired result.

polysemousFFIEC IT Examination Handbook - Audit, April 2012

Senses

Wordset Dictionary

a successful attempt at scoring

Wordset Dictionary

game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points

Wordset Dictionary

the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it

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the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

Classifications

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
destinationendfinish
alternatephrasing
Goal
plural
goals
possessive
goal's
pluralpossessive
goals'