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means to an end

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a means to an end
something that you are not interested in but that you do because it will help you to achieve something else. Mike doesn't have any professional ambitions. For him, work is just a means to an end. (not used with the)
See also: end, mean
a means to an end
something done to achieve something else. You may get tired of regular physical exercise, but it's simply a means to an end.
See also: end, mean
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Concepts of good and evil are therefore, in their origin, merely a means to an end, they are expedients for acquiring power.
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
He too looks with pitying contempt on the material achievements of science and the Liberal party as being mere 'machinery,' means to an end, which men mistakenly worship as though it possessed a real value in itself.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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