-oriented
Britishsuffix
Explanation
To be oriented is to be positioned in a direction relative to something or someplace else, and it's often used with the prepositions "toward" or "away from." In order to find our way home, we should be oriented toward the north. You can be oriented towards or away from all sorts of things, not only geographic ones. For example, if you like sports, you might be called sports-oriented. If politics is your thing, then you're politically oriented. For millennia, people have used the North Star to orient themselves, because it's always in the same place in the sky.
Vocabulary lists containing oriented
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Example Sentences
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Prosecutors said Zhao transmitted "plans for a large-scale maritime training exercise in the Pacific theatre, operational orders and electrical diagrams and blueprints for a Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system located in Okinawa, Japan".
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
Two housing initiatives — an Affordable Housing Overlay and expansions to the Transit Oriented Communities program — would have made it possible to build affordable and mixed-income housing in areas traditionally off-limits to multifamily homes.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2024
The federal review by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services was announced just five days after the shooting.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024
The review by the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services was launched just days after the shooting, and local prosecutors are still evaluating a separate criminal investigation by the Texas Rangers.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 17, 2024
Oriented by a bright crescent moon just rising, he faced southeast, toward Mecca.
From The Saracen: Land of the Infidel by Shea, Robert
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