nonaimless
adjEtymology From non- + aimless.
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Not aimless; purposeful.
- So far as concerns this problem of choice and the "prices" necessarily related to it, the economic system stands on the same ground with any nonaimless behavior.1968, John Mathew Culbertson, Macroeconomic Theory and Stabilization Policy, page 144:
- There are, of course, some conceptual relationships between (i) taking means to an end and (i') taking means to ends of the specificity and extent required by the technical model, (ii) such broader concepts as pursuing aims and acting with purpose, and (iii) acting in an intelligent, nonrandom, nonaimless fashion .1975, Regaining Educational Leadership, page 92:
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- Any (nonaimless) movement at a distance greater than 35 ft (10.7 m) from a work station (except for equipment operators hauling materials and returning empty).1982 March, R. Court Olson, “Planning, Scheduling, and Communicating Effects on Crew Productivity”, in Journal of the Construction Division, volume 108, number 1: