noun, adjective
noun ~ (for sth) a reason for doing sth:
There seemed to be no motive for the murder. * I'm suspicious of his motives. * the profit motive (= the desire to make a profit) * I have an ulterior motive in offering to help you.
motiveless adjective:
an apparently motiveless murder / attack
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (technical) causing movement or action:
motive power / force (for example, electricity, to operate machinery)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for motive is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does motive appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — motive appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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