"in order to" meaning in English

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  1. As a means of achieving the specified end; to. Synonyms: so as to, for to, to [particle] Related terms: in order, in order that, in order for, so that, to [particle] Translations (as a means of achieving the specified aim): ἵνα (hína) (Ancient Greek), لِكَي (li-kay) (Arabic), لِ (li) (Arabic), حَتَّى (ḥattā) (Arabic), علشان (ʕalašān) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), عشان (ʕašān) [Egyptian-Arabic] (Arabic), որպեսզի (orpeszi) (Armenian), որ (or) (Armenian), каб (kab) (Belarusian), за да (za da) (Bulgarian), ဖို့ (hpui.) (Burmese), же́бы (žébŷ) (Carpathian Rusyn), per tal (Catalan), 為了 (Chinese Mandarin), 为了 (wèile) (Chinese Mandarin), 以便 (yǐbiàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 用以 (yòngyǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), aby (Czech), for at (Danish), om (Dutch), ten einde (Dutch), por (Esperanto), et (Estonian), jotta (Finnish), pour [with-infinitive] (French), afin de (French), pour que (French), para (Galician), um zu (German), damit (German), behufs (German), για να (gia na) (Greek), על מנת ('al menát) (Hebrew), כְּדֵי (k'dei) (Hebrew), ताकि (tāki) (Hindi), hogy (Hungarian), azért, hogy (Hungarian), til þess að (Icelandic), jot (Ingrian), etti (Ingrian), jet (Ingrian), chun (Irish), le (Irish), d'fhonn (Irish), per (Italian), ...ために (english: ...tame ni) (Japanese), ...手段として (...shudan to shite) (Japanese), ように (...yō-ni) (Japanese), ដើម្បី (daəmbəy) (Khmer), ... 하기 위하여 (... hagi wihayeo) (Korean), ut [with-subjunctive] (Latin), за да (za da) (Macedonian), како би (kako bi) (Macedonian), aguã (Mbyá Guaraní), daku (Northern Kurdish), bo ku (Northern Kurdish), for å [with-infinitive] (Norwegian), for å [with-infinitive] (Norwegian), به منظور (be manzur) (Persian), تا (tâ) (Persian), żeby (Polish), aby (Polish), by (Polish), coby [dialectal] (Polish), w celu (Polish), ażeby [literary] (Polish), a fim de que (Portuguese), pentru a (Romanian), ca să (Romanian), что́бы (štóby) (Russian), чтоб (štob) (Russian), да́бы (dáby) [archaic, poetic] (Russian), air chor 's gu (Scottish Gaelic), gus (Scottish Gaelic), los (Scottish Gaelic), како би [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), да би [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), што би [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), kako bi [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), da bi [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), što bi [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), aby (Slovak), da bi (Slovene), a fin de (Spanish), para (Spanish), a (Spanish), för att (Swedish), เพื่อที่จะ (pʉ̂ʉa tîi jà) (Thai), เพื่อ (pʉ̂ʉa) (Thai), щоб (ščob) (Ukrainian), تاکی (tāki) (Urdu), để (Vietnamese)

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          "word": "... 하기 위하여"
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "english": "...tame ni",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "ដើម្បី"
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "word": "что́бы"
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "da bi"
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "a fin de"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "para"
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "a"
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      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "för att"
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    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "pʉ̂ʉa tîi jà",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "เพื่อที่จะ"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "pʉ̂ʉa",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "เพื่อ"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "ščob",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "щоб"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "tāki",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "تاکی"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "as a means of achieving the specified aim",
      "word": "để"
    }
  ],
  "word": "in order to"
}

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