cross-purposes in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

cross-purposes in the PONS Dictionary

American English

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
Everyone working at cross-purposes, with everyone having the same goal in mind.
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Devise ways and means of bringing the two closer to each other, and to ensure that they do not work at cross-purposes.
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Talk about an expensive political agenda that runs at cross-purposes to deficit reduction goals.
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You can see we are at cross-purposes with ourselves again.
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We've talked at cross-purposes for over an hour.
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People working at cross-purposes, and the subsequent efforts to correct the outcome.
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Of course, combining shoes off indoors with running literally barefoot may be working to cross-purposes, if you track in toxins on your bare feet.
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A vote of non-confidence in our leadership would work at cross-purposes to our collective goals as a university well into the future.
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That's nothing if not an ambitious undertaking, especially since the causes of novelty and nostalgia are so often at cross-purposes.
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For example, individual and team-based rewards can sometime work at cross-purposes.
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