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What (who) is SEEK - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Seeking; Seek (disambiguation)
seek
v. (E) she sought to help
Seek
·adj Sick.
II. Seek ·vt To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
III. Seek ·vi To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
IV. Seek ·vt To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
VI. Seek ·vt To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
seek
(seeks, seeking, sought)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you seek something such as a job or a place to live, you try to find one. (FORMAL)
They have had to seek work as labourers...
Four people who sought refuge in the Italian embassy have left voluntarily...
Candidates are urgently sought for the post of Conservative party chairman.
VERB: V n, V n, be V-ed for n
2.
When someone seeks something, they try to obtain it. (FORMAL)
The prosecutors have warned they will seek the death penalty...
Haemophiliacs are seeking compensation for being given contaminated blood.
VERB: V n, V n
3.
If you seek someone's help or advice, you contact them in order to ask for it. (FORMAL)
Always seek professional legal advice before entering into any agreement...
The couple have sought help from marriage guidance counsellors.
VERB: V n, V n from n
4.
If you seek to do something, you try to do it. (FORMAL)
He also denied that he would seek to annex the country...
VERB: V to-inf
Wikipedia
Seek
Seek may refer to:
- Disk seek, in which the read head of a magnetic disk repositions itself
- Zero seek
- Rent seeking
- Job seeking
- Goal seeking
- Seek Limited, an Australian recruitment website
- Seek, a mobile app made by iNaturalist
- Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond
- Seeking.com
Examples of use of SEEK
1. We do seek an end to the current violence, and we seek it urgently.
2. Death will seek all of us at some point, but we must chose to seek friendship.
3. "Rather, we seek to help our Central Asia partners achieve the stability they seek.
4. "Where can the people of Iraq seek refuge, and from whom can the people of Iraq seek justice?" he asked.
5. Where can the people of Iraq seek refuge and from whom should the government of Iraq seek justice?