(alsogoal-directed);(alsogoal-driven)a goal-orientedpersonorteamworkshard toachievegoodresultsin thetasksthat they have been given:Themanagementteamwas made up ofambitious, goal-orientedtypeswho'dworkedhard fortheirpositions.a goal-orientedplanoractivityisbasedon anumberof things that must beachieved:Analystsrecommendeda goal-orientedcost-cuttingprogramto get thecompanyback ontrack.(Definition ofgoal-orientedfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgoal-oriented
goal-orientedThe behavioral result is that activation in this pathway is thought to facilitate top-downgoal-oriented behavior and thereby simultaneously suppress alternative nongoal-oriented behaviors.From theCambridge English CorpusThe choir activity included the performances, which made the workgoal-oriented.From theCambridge English CorpusBecause it is governed by mind, the process isgoal-oriented.From theCambridge English CorpusWe, therefore, decided to explore a more equal and consistent social perspective, a more coherent sequential network topology and to introducegoal-orientedmusical activities.From theCambridge English CorpusWe refer to this set of activities as a composite, "goal-oriented" activity.From theCambridge English CorpusResearchers who started to study anticancer drugs were therefore familiar withgoal-orientedresearch, large-scale collaborative projects, and a complex division of labor.From theCambridge English CorpusSuch conditions, however, are less representative forgoal-orientedaction which by definition is controlled by forthcoming, and thus necessarily anticipated, distal effects.From theCambridge English CorpusThe reason may be partly that rational choice andgoal-orientedindividualism makes social scientists in the older cultures nervous.From theCambridge English CorpusFirst, we identified the directional,goal-orientedusages of the verbs take, sit, and put.From theCambridge English CorpusThe contextual layer describesgoal-orientedlearning as observed in operant conditioning.From theCambridge English CorpusEmotions allowgoal-oriented, that is, flexible behavior instigation by relevant events, instead of mere rigid fixed action patterns.From theCambridge English CorpusIt is finally mentioned that there is no sharp borderline between agent-oriented andgoal-orientedrequirements engineering.From theCambridge English CorpusBoth of these episodes illustrate the potential conflict between temporal andgoal-orienteddefinitions of episodes.From theCambridge English CorpusThis form of engagement with the present is radically different from thegoal-orientedengagement of youth or middle age.From theCambridge English CorpusSustained retention entails the dynamic link of these higher-order memories with schemata forgoal-orientedaction housed by the frontal lobes.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/goal-oriented##
