0 a strong wish to achieve something:
[ + to infinitive ] His ambition is ultimately to run his own business.
He has already achieved his main ambition in life - to become wealthy.
political ambitions
She doubts whether she'll ever be able to fulfil her ambition.
I've always had a burning (= very great) ambition to be a film director.
After his heart attack, he abandoned his ambition to become prime minister.
She has a lot of ambition.
1 a strong desire for success, achievement, power, or wealth:
[ C ] His presidential ambitions were frustrated in the 1980s.
2 a strong wish to achieve a particular thing:
3 a strong wish to be successful:
Her ambition and dogged determination ensured that she rose to the top of her profession.
Being here is the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition.
To this end, in this article, we identify the main research motivations and ambitions behind work in the field.
The personalities, ambitions, actions and ideas of the latter, in turn, contribute to shape the profiles of the parties and decisively affect their performance.
The thematic links, however, betray some of the ambitions of anthro-literary writing.
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