pursuit suggests a trade, profession, or avocation followed with zeal or steady interest.

Pursuit (1972 American film), a made-for-TV film directed by Michael Crichton Pursuit (1972 Hong Kong film), a Shaw Brothers film Pursuit (1989 film), a TV miniseries directed by Ian Sharp Pursuit (2015 …

PURSUIT definition: 1. an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are not working: 2. the act of….

1. the act of pursuing. 2. an effort to secure or attain; quest. 3. an occupation or pastime one regularly engages in: literary pursuits. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K …

Your pursuit of something is your attempts at achieving it. If you do something in pursuit of a particular result, you do it in order to achieve that result.

Pursuit definition: the act of pursuing.. See examples of PURSUIT used in a sentence.

Definition of pursuit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pursuit, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

• Cheng raced through a crowded shopping mall in pursuit of the man who had grabbed her purse. • The robbers sped off in a stolen car with three police vehicles in pursuit.

Pursuit is free in either physical or moral uses: as, the pursuit of a tiger, a profession, an ambition. Pursuance is not now used except in the moral sense, and then generally in the sense of following …