objectives
Sayuhb-JEK-tivz/əbˈd͡ʒɛk.tɪvz/
- 1Plural of objective.
The committee outlined three objectives before the project began.
Military commanders revised their objectives after the first week of fighting.
Note
A regular plural that serves every noun meaning of objective, not only the goals a committee or commander sets. The lenses of a camera or microscope nearest the thing being examined are objectives too, and a grammarian can call nouns or pronouns in the objective case objectives. The adjective, which means relating to actual existence or reality, never takes the -s, so objectives is always a noun.
objectives is a form of objective
objective, noun: A goal that someone works hard to achieve. Full entry
- Forms
- objectiveobjectives plural
- Spelling
- objective → objectives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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