look for

present singular third person looks for · participle present looking for · participle past looked for · past looked for · alternative lf · alternative LF

1. transitiveTo seek, to try to find.

   He spent his life looking for the truth.

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   In July, when classes are over, most college-goers go looking for jobs.

   The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.

   1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC

   You may be right I may be crazy Oh, but it just may be a lunatic you're looking for

   1980 March 7, Billy Joel, “You May Be Right”, in Glass Houses

   [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

   2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2013

   Synonyms: search for

2. archaictransitiveTo expect.

   Synonyms: look after