aims

Multiple Entries:
  aim    AIM  

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.

▶noun

• 1 a purpose or intention.

• 2 the aiming of a weapon or missile.

– phrases
take aim point a weapon or camera at a target.

– origin ME: from OFr. amer, var. of esmer, from L. aestimare ‘assess, estimate’.

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AIM

▶abbreviation Alternative Investment Market.