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as‧pire/əˈspaɪə $ əˈspaɪr/ verb [INTRANSITIVE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : aspirer, from Latin aspirare 'to breathe on', from ad- 'to, on to' + spirare 'to breathe']
to desire and work towards achieving something important
aspire to
　 ▪ college graduates aspiring to careers in finance
aspire to do something
　 ▪ At that time, all serious artists aspired to go to Rome.

verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
to
▪ Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening.
▪ Partnerships differ in scope, purpose and specific orientation and in the nature of relationship they aspire to.
▪ Billy Egan and Terry Place had not quite risen to their ranks, although Egan at least had aspired to.
▪ But I also know that Gordon Wilson's view is the only one worth aspiring to.
▪ What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop.
▪ What finer sepulchre of honour could any Marine ever aspire to?
▪ It's a description to aspire to.
▪ As in Darcy's Utopia, in the future we aspire to.
NOUN
man
▪ To hold such a cure, a man must aspire to the crown of humanity.
▪ If the model democratic citizen is active, participating, and influential, is this what the ordinary man aspires to be?
▪ The cultivation of creativity is the most important requirement of men who aspire to the highest reaches of the transcendent world.
▪ Before he made that call, he would have said he was a man who aspired to peace, and rest.
▪ Police earnings in the 1920s were substantial by comparison with most other occupations to which a working man could aspire.
▪ What then were the hurdles facing a young man aspiring to a scholarly career in the early sixteenth century?
▪ When I was a young man, aspiring detectives would attend at autopsies on their rest days, just for experience.
people
▪ It is a sign of the economic desperation that young people even aspire to work in impoverished Moscow and Bucharest.
▪ Sir Adrian believes that today young people aspiring to careers in industry should seriously think about setting up their own small firms.
▪ To be a good business man is the epitome of development and these learned people secretly aspire to that goal.
▪ This may be excellent fodder for people who are aspiring to be the next winner of Mastermind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ How he must have aspired to rise up forcefully, his yearning impregnating the walls with a similar passion.
▪ Laura had always aspired to the very best within a certain budget; her budget had now expanded.
▪ What he aspired to was the union of southern Anglian peoples under the leadership of a Mercian king and a Mercian archbishop.