"seek for" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seeks for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeking for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sought for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sought for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "2": "*",
        "3": "sought for"
      },
      "expansion": "seek for (third-person singular simple present seeks for, present participle seeking for, simple past and past participle sought for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, “LOTS OF FISH CAUGHT.; CROWDS OF FISHERMEN ALONG THE NORTH RIVER AND AT CITY ISLAND.”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Any one who doubts the quality of the sport found by those fishermen who seek for their Sunday victims in the North River should have strolled along its bank yesterday above One Hundredth-street.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "I had been out all day trudging from one newspaper office to another, seeking for work and finding none.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Alexis Soloski, “‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns, Because 2020 Isn’t Scary Enough”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "From the beginning, competing impulses powered “Unsolved Mysteries”: a crusading compulsion to seek for justice and a market-driven need to entertain.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try to find or attain; to seek."
      ],
      "id": "en-seek_for-en-verb-4PX8kGWh",
      "links": [
        [
          "find",
          "find"
        ],
        [
          "attain",
          "attain"
        ],
        [
          "seek",
          "seek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To try to find or attain; to seek."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seek for"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "seeks for",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "seeking for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sought for",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sought for",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*",
        "2": "*",
        "3": "sought for"
      },
      "expansion": "seek for (third-person singular simple present seeks for, present participle seeking for, simple past and past participle sought for)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"for\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with rare senses",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1889, “LOTS OF FISH CAUGHT.; CROWDS OF FISHERMEN ALONG THE NORTH RIVER AND AT CITY ISLAND.”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "Any one who doubts the quality of the sport found by those fishermen who seek for their Sunday victims in the North River should have strolled along its bank yesterday above One Hundredth-street.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan, →OCLC, page 9:",
          "text": "I had been out all day trudging from one newspaper office to another, seeking for work and finding none.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Alexis Soloski, “‘Unsolved Mysteries’ Returns, Because 2020 Isn’t Scary Enough”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "From the beginning, competing impulses powered “Unsolved Mysteries”: a crusading compulsion to seek for justice and a market-driven need to entertain.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To try to find or attain; to seek."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "find",
          "find"
        ],
        [
          "attain",
          "attain"
        ],
        [
          "seek",
          "seek"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To try to find or attain; to seek."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "seek for"
}