doel
Meaning
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- (neuter) aim, purpose
- (neuter) destination
- (neuter) goal
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/dul/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch doel, doele (“ditch that separated two fields”), from Old Dutch *duola, from Proto-Germanic *dōlijǭ, *dōlijō (“dale, valley”). Related to dal (“dale, valley”). Likely, the initial meaning was "ditch, pit" which shifted to "pile of earth" to "pile of earth used as target in a shooting range" to "shooting target" to "goal".
New
doelen
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- (intransitive) to aim
- (intransitive) to allude, hint
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Sentences
Liberalisering is mijns inziens geen 🙅 doel op zich .
🙅
I feel that liberalisation is not an end in itself.