Usually means: Drive to achieve specific goals.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word motivation:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. motivation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. motivation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. motivation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. motivation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. motivation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Motivation, motivation: Wordnik
  7. motivation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. motivation: Wiktionary
  9. motivation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. motivation: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. motivation: Dictionary.com
  12. motivation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Motivation (Kelly Rowland song), Motivation (Moti Special album), Motivation (Normani song), Motivation (band), Motivation (disambiguation), Motivation (song), Motivation, The Motivation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. motivation: Rhymezone
  15. Motivation (f), motivation, motivation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. motivation: Free Dictionary
  17. motivation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. motivation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motivation: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. motivation: Legal dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Motivation: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. motivation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. motivation: Medical dictionary
  4. Motivation: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Motivation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. motivation: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

(Note: See motivational as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Willingness of action especially in behavior.
noun:  The action of motivating.
noun:  Something which motivates.
noun:  An incentive or reason for doing something.
noun:  (advertising) A research rating that measures how the rational and emotional elements of a commercial affect consumer intention to consider, visit, or buy something.

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