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Synonyms

-oriented

British  

suffix

  1. designed for, directed towards, motivated by, or concerned with

    computer-oriented courses

    managers who are profit-oriented
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Despite his protests that he had spent more time in New York than anywhere else, Bobby was Massachusetts-born and -oriented, and a resident of Virginia besides.

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Adenauer saw that the old, Roman Catholic -oriented Center Party of Weimar days could no longer survive in a Germany divided first by occupation zones, then by the Iron Curtain.

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