for the sake of

English

Alternative forms

• for sake of
• for something's sake

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

for the sake of

1. Because of; out of consideration for; in the interest of.

   Release this man, for the sake of justice!

   • 1958 November, “The Why and the Wherefore: South Eastern & Chatham Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 809:

     The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.

   • 1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 19:

     We also want to stress that analytical reading is hardly ever necessary if your goal in reading is simply information or entertainment. Analytical reading is preeminently for the sake of understanding.

Derived terms

• for Christ's sake
• for fuck's sake
• for God's sake
• for goodness' sake
• for heaven's sake
• for mercy's sake
• for Pete's sake
• for pity's sake

Translations

because of

• Arabic: مِن أَجْلِ (min ʔajli)

  Egyptian Arabic: عشان (ʕašān)

  South Levantine Arabic: عشان (ʕašān)

• Armenian: համար (hy) (hamar), հանուն (hy) (hanun), սիրուն (hy) (sirun), խաթեր (hy) (xatʻer) (dialectal)
• Azerbaijani: xatir, xatirinə
• Bashkir: хаҡына (xaqına)
• Belarusian: дзе́ля (dzjélja), зара́дзі (zarádzi), для (dlja)
• Bulgarian: заради́ (bg) (zaradí), в името на (v imeto na)
• Catalan: per (a)mor de
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 為着 (ūi-tio̍h)

  Mandarin: 為了 / 为了 (zh) (wèile)

• Cornish: a-barth, bar'
• Czech: kvůli (cs)
• Dutch: ter wille van (nl), omwille van (nl)
• Esperanto: pro (eo) (indicates cause), por (eo) (indicates outcome)
• Finnish: nimessä, vuoksi (fi), takia (fi), tähden (fi)
• French: pour l'amour de, dans l'intérêt de, au nom de (fr)
• Georgian: ხათრით (xatrit)
• German: wegen (de), um ... willen (de), halber (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ὑπέρ (hupér) (+ genitive)

• Hebrew: לְמַעַן (he) (l'máan), לִכְבוֹד (likh'vód)
• Hungarian: érdekében (hu), kedvéért (hu), végett (hu), tekintettel (hu)
• Irish: de gheall ar, as ucht, ar son, ar scáth, ar mhaithe le, de ghrá
• Italian: per il bene di
• Japanese: ...のために (ja) (... no tame ni), ...の為に (ja) (...のために, ...no tame ni)
• Korean: 을 위해서 (-eul wihaeseo), 때문에 (ko) (ttaemun-e) (follows a noun with -에 or a nominalized clause)
• Macedonian: поради (poradi)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: верч (verč)

• Persian: بخاطر (fa) (be-xâter), به جهت (be jehat), برای (fa) (barâye)
• Polish: na (pl), dla (pl)
• Portuguese: pelo bem de
• Punjabi: ਬਰਾਏ (barāē), ਲਈ (laī)
• Romanian: de dragul (+ genitive case)
• Russian: ра́ди (ru) (rádi) (+ genitive case), для (ru) (dlja)
• Scottish Gaelic: airson, son (colloquial), air sgàth
• Slovak: kvôli
• Spanish: por amor a, en el nombre de
• Tamil: பொருட்டு (ta) (poruṭṭu), -க்காக (-kkāka) (i.e. the benefactive case)
• Turkish: uğruna
• Ukrainian: зара́ди (uk) (zarády), для (uk) (dlja)
• Welsh: er mwyn
• Yiddish: לכּבֿוד (lekoved)