Usually means: Actively seeks to achieve something.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word pursues:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pursues: Merriam-Webster
  2. pursues: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pursues: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pursues: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pursues, pursues: Wordnik
  6. pursues: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pursues: Wiktionary
  8. pursues: Dictionary.com
  9. pursues: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. pursues: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursues: Legal dictionary

(Note: See pursue as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pursue)

verb:  (ambitransitive) To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase.
verb:  (transitive) To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.).
verb:  (transitive) To participate in (an activity, business etc.); to practise, follow (a profession).
verb:  (intransitive) To act as a legal prosecutor.
verb:  (transitive, somewhat archaic) To continue; to carry on.
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