Meaning & use
goal-oriented person
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Meaning
nouncountable
A person who organizes their actions around specific aims rather than vague wishes.
Grammar: Countable: a goal-oriented person, several goal-oriented people.
Patterns
- a goal-oriented person
- be a goal-oriented person
A goal-oriented person writes down what they want to achieve.
The team hired a goal-oriented person to lead the project.
As a goal-oriented person, she reviews her targets every Friday.
Word forms
| plural | goal-oriented people |
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Common combinations
- highly goal-oriented
- He is highly goal-oriented and tracks his progress daily.
- goal-oriented culture
- The company has a goal-oriented culture.
- goal-oriented behavior
- Teachers reward goal-oriented behavior in class.
- goal-oriented planning
- Goal-oriented planning saves time.
Synonyms and how they differ
- focused
- Means giving attention to one thing; goal-oriented adds the idea of targets.
- purposeful
- Suggests doing things with a clear reason, but not always with measurable goals.
- results-driven
- Stresses final results, while goal-oriented stresses the aims you set first.
Opposites
Word family
- goal orientation noun
- The habit of working toward clear aims.
- goal noun
- An aim you try to reach.
Commonly confused: goal-oriented person or goal driven person?
goal-oriented person vs goal driven person
Similar, but goal driven highlights strong inner motivation, while goal-oriented highlights organizing around targets.
Practice
Choose the sentence that best fits the meaning of 'goal-oriented person'.
Choose one answer.
A goal-oriented person organizes actions around aims, so setting weekly targets fits. The others contradict the meaning.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “goal-oriented person”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.