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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.
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.
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.
Definition of pursuit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
