Usually means: Intentions or reasons for actions.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word purposes:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. purposes: Merriam-Webster
  2. purposes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. purposes: Collins English Dictionary
  4. purposes: Vocabulary.com
  5. Purposes, purposes: Wordnik
  6. purposes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. purposes: Wiktionary
  8. purposes: Dictionary.com
  9. purposes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. purposes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. purposes: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. purposes: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. purposes: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purposes: Idioms

(Note: See purpose as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (purpose)

noun:  The end for which something is done, is made or exists.
noun:  Function, role.
noun:  (Sense of having a) meaning for existing or doing something.
noun:  Resolution; determination.
noun:  (obsolete) The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
verb:  (transitive) To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
verb:  (intransitive) To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse.
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