to what end
Adverb
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Adverb
to what end (not comparable)
- For what purpose, what for, why
- We will never know to what ends he was working.
- To what end are you spending so much time reading the newspaper?
- They put so much effort into it, but to what end?
- French: dans quel but, pour quoi faire, à quelle fin
- Russian: к чему́
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