goal-oriented
adjEtymology From goal + oriented.
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Focused on reaching a particular objective or serving a particular purpose.
- Like many films of the indie realist strain - and unlike Lost in Translation — Welcome to the Dollhouse eventually abandons its slack, episodic pattern of narration for more goal-oriented suspense.2011, Michael Z. Newman, Indie, An American Film Culture, page 117:
- Derived terms
- goal-orientedness