Towards; in the direction of. • Leading towards in time or circumstance. • Directed at; intended to belong to. • In order to help, benefit, gratify, honor etc. (someone or something). • Befitting of someone’s beliefs, needs, wants, skills, or tastes; best suited to. • To be used or treated in a stated way, or with a stated purpose or meaning. • Supporting, in favour of. • Because of. • In order to cure, remove or counteract. • So as to allow (something or someone) to take position. • In anticipation of. • As an evaluation of; as to evaluate in connection with. • So as to identify or locate. • Over (a period of time). • Throughout or across (a distance in space). • Used to introduce a subject of a to-infinitive clause. • On behalf of. • In the role or capacity of; instead of; in place of. • In exchange for; in correspondence or equivalence with. • In order to obtain or acquire. • By the standards of, usually with the implication that those standards are lower than one might otherwise expect; considering as an example of a role or of limitations. • To be, or as being. • Despite, in spite of. • Indicating something desired or anticipated. • Introducing the first item(s) in a potential sequence . • In honor of; after. • Due for or facing (a certain outcome or fate). • Out of; used to indicate a fraction, a ratio • For the price of. • Used as part of a score to indicate the number of wickets that have fallen. • Indicating that in prevention of which, or through fear of which, anything is done. • So (that), in order to. • Used in various other more-or-less idiomatic ways to construe individual verbs, indicating various semantic relationships such as target, purpose, result, etc.; see also the entries for individual phrasal verbs, e.g. ask for, look for, stand for, etc. • Used to introduce a variable subject to quantification, or to establish a restricting domain for a subsequent mathematical statement.