Usually means: Assigning a specific use or function.
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  1. purposing: Merriam-Webster
  2. purposing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. purposing: Vocabulary.com
  4. purposing: Wordnik
  5. purposing: Wiktionary
  6. Purposing, purposing: Dictionary.com
  7. Purposing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Purposing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. purposing: FreeDictionary.org
  10. purposing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purposing: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purposing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (purposing)

▸ noun:  The act of forming a purpose.

Similar:
intention, intent, function, purport, determination, propose, resolve, use, design, role, more...

Opposite:
aimlessness, aimless, purposelessness, purposeless

Types:
intending, designing, planning, mulling, devising, scheming, more...

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Similar:
intention, intent, function, purport, determination, propose, resolve, use, design, role, more...

Opposite:
aimlessness, aimless, purposelessness, purposeless

Types:
intending, designing, planning, mulling, devising, scheming, more...



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