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go towards

idiom
Meaning

To be a contribution to.


Examples
SIMPLE

This small donation will go towards the new library.

CONTEXTUAL

All the money we raised from the bake sale will go towards buying new uniforms for the team.

COMPLEX

The committee decided that the remaining budget surplus should go towards funding the research project, ensuring the scientists had the resources required for their final phase.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    all dressed up and nowhere to go

    Elaborately attired or otherwise fully prepared for an anticipated situation or activity which, nevertheless, fails to occur.

  2. 02

    all systems go

    Everything is ready.

  3. 03

    as you go

    While one is doing (something); as one progresses.

  4. 04

    boldly go where no man has gone before

    To break new ground.

  5. 05

    come and go

    To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.

  6. 06

    dial towards

    To be oriented towards, to be figuratively moving in the direction of or aiming at a conclusion.

  7. 07

    don't go there

    Do not broach that topic.

  8. 08

    easy come, easy go

    Easily won and easily lost (usually said when resigned to a loss; something that comes in the same way, goes in the same way)

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