AIM
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
AIM
▶abbreviation Alternative Investment Market.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
aim/eɪm/
▶verb
- 1 point (a weapon or camera) at a target.
■ direct at someone or something.
- 2 try to achieve something.
- 1 a purpose or intention.
- 2 the aiming of a weapon or missile.
– phrases
take aim point a weapon or camera at a target.
take aim point a weapon or camera at a target.
– origin ME: from OFr. amer, var. of esmer, from L. aestimare ‘assess, estimate’.
'AIM' also found in these Oxford entries:
action
- advance
- affect
- aim
- bead
- bear
- blind date
- cause
- collimate
- compete
- confound
- constructive dismissal
- cover
- crusade
- crystal-gazing
- defeat
- deliver
- design
- direct
- dodgem
- draughts
- enosis
- euchre
- eye
- fellowship
- follow
- gallery
- goal
- golf
- hedonism
- idea
- instrument
- instrumental
- intend
- intention
- jack
- level
- means
- mission
- objective
- on
- opus Dei
- overture
- perlocution
- petition
- pitch
- point
- present
- programme
