Usually means: Active quest for achieving goals.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word pursuit:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pursuit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pursuit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pursuit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pursuit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pursuit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pursuit, pursuit: Wordnik
  7. pursuit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pursuit: Wiktionary
  9. pursuit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pursuit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pursuit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pursuit, pursuit: Dictionary.com
  13. pursuit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pursuit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pursuit (TV series), Pursuit (album), Pursuit (video game), Pursuit, The Pursuit (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pursuit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pursuit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pursuit: Rhymezone
  19. pursuit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pursuit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pursuit: Free Dictionary
  22. pursuit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pursuit: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursuit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. PURSUIT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PURSUIT: Acronym Finder
  2. pursuit: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Pursuit, pursuit: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pursuit: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Pursuit: Sports Definitions

(Note: See pursuits as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of pursuing.
noun:  A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
noun:  (cycle racing) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
noun:  (law, obsolete) prosecution

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