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- Dictionarypursuit/pəˈsjuːt/
noun
- 1. the action of pursuing someone or something: "the cat crouched in the grass in pursuit of a bird" Similar
- 2. an activity of a specified kind, especially a recreational or sporting one: "a whole range of leisure pursuits" Similar
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the act of trying to achieve a plan, activity, or situation, usually over a long period of time: the pursuit of happiness. The company is ruthless in its pursuit of profit.
The meaning of PURSUIT is the act of pursuing. How to use pursuit in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Pursuit.
Your pursuit of something is your attempts at achieving it. If you do something in pursuit of a particular result, you do it in order to achieve that result.
noun. the act of pursuing: in pursuit of the fox. Synonyms: hunt, chase. an effort to secure or attain; quest: the pursuit of happiness. Synonyms: search. any occupation, pastime, or the like, in which a person is engaged regularly or customarily: literary pursuits. Synonyms: inclination, preoccupation, activity. pursuit. / pəˈsjuːt / noun.
to follow someone or something, usually to try to catch him, her, or it: The car was pursued by helicopters. The hunters spent hours pursuing their prey. He was killed by the driver of a stolen car who was being hotly pursued by the police. Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples. to chase someone or something.
A pursuit is a chase or a quest for something. When a guard runs after an escaping jewel thief, she's in pursuit — while the thief may have stolen the jewels because he was in pursuit of wealth.
Definition of pursuit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
