Wiktionary
n. Of a group: having the same purpose or intent in some action or series of actions.
Wikipedia
The doctrine of common purpose, common design, joint enterprise, or joint criminal enterprise is a common law legal doctrine that imputes criminal liability to the participants in a criminal enterprise for all that results from that enterprise. A common application of the rule is to impute criminal liability for wounding a person to participants in a riot who knew, or were reckless as to knowing, that one of their number had a knife and might use it, despite the fact that the other participants did not have knives themselves. In England and Wales and certain other Commonwealth countries, this was the understanding of the courts until February 2016, when the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council jointly ruled that it was wrong, and that nothing less than intent to assist the crime would do.
The common purpose doctrine was established in England and Wales, and later adopted in other common law jurisdictions including Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Trinidad and Tobago, Solomon Islands, Texas, Massachusetts, the International Criminal Court, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
Usage examples of "common purpose".
This was to be achieved by developing methods of co-operation for a common purpose.
And it was because of their common zeal for independence, their wholehearted, mutual devotion to the common cause of America, and the certainty that they were taking part in one of history's turning points, that the two were able to concentrate on the common purpose in a spirit of respect and cooperation, putting aside obvious differences, as well as others not so obvious and more serious than they could then have known.
His spirit was sunk low, for he saw the hoped-for peace was all lost, wisdom burned away in the flames of Chakthi's rage, and he foresaw chaos descending when the People stood in great need of common sense and common purpose.
My people fight well because we not only have a common purpose, we think alike.
Now, our lives are so interdependent that they must, in the future, develop with a common purpose.
They stood in a circle, the better to bind them to a common purpose.