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Answer for the clue "The goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) ", 9 letters:
objective

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena; "an objective appraisal"; "objective evidence" [syn: nonsubjective ] [ant: subjective ] serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain ...

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1738, "something objective to the mind," from objective (adj.). Meaning "goal, aim" (1881) is from military term objective point (1852), reflecting a sense evolution in French.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Of or relating to a material object, actual existence or reality. 2 Not influenced by the emotions or prejudices. 3 Based on observed facts. 4 (context grammar English) Of, or relating to a noun or pronoun used as the object of a ver n. 1 A material object ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Object \Ob"ject\ ([o^]b"j[e^]kt), n. [L. objectus. See Object , v. t.] That which is put, or which may be regarded as put, in the way of some of the senses; something visible or tangible and persists for an appreciable time; as, he observed an object in ...

Usage examples of objective.

But, as it was, he ably supported the exposed flank that Johnston so skillfully attacked, won the battle, inflicted losses a good deal larger than his own, and gained his ulterior objective as well as if there had not been a fight at all.

Then you choose objectives which, once achieved, will produce the end results you specified.

The objectives are to install IPS and to maximize BICO on an on-going basis, not just a per-meeting basis, achieved via democracy by informed ballot.

Which implies, I hope, that what we need is more citizen activation and less government efforts at achieving their objectives for them.

Senator, by our definition, is anything that prevents you from achieving an objective.

You can waffle around trying to solve all the rest of the problems in the world and still not end up achieving your real objectives.

Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun.

The objective was disclosed in an affidavit by Otto Ohlendorf, one of the S.

Costas had been using the digital navigational display to align the DSRV with its objective.

Act embodying this objective was held void by Justice William Johnson, himself a South Carolinian, in a case arising in the Carolina circuit and involving a colored British sailor.

Detailed objectives of the various armies were outlined as well as those for the Air Force and Navy.

Almighty enable you to lend a fresh and unprecedented impetus to the onward march of the Faith, revive the spirit of its supporters, enlarge its limits, multiply its local institutions, consolidate its foundations, safeguard its rights, spread abroad its fame, and aid its followers to discharge befittingly their responsibilities, and concentrate on the attainment of the objectives of the Ten-Year Plan, on which the immediate destiny of the entire community depends.

Her private war continued, but the objective shifted from harassing the Slavers Bod to freeing as many slaves as possible.

A modern, materialistic reinterpretation of this view asserts that mental events in general, and all causally efficacious mental processes in particular, are unconscious, for they are actually brain states that can be studied solely by objective, scientific means.

There were many opportunities for science to emerge, in the sense that we know it -- the reasonably dispassionate search for objective, checkable troths about the physical world.