Aspiration

[as-puh–rey-shuh n]

noun

1. a strong desire, longing, or aim; ambition: intellectual aspirations.

2. a goal or objective that is strongly desired: The presidency has been his aspiration since boyhood.

3. the act of aspirating or breathing in.

4. Phonetics.

a: articulation accompanied by an audible puff of breath, as in the h -sound of how, or of when (hwen), or in the release of initial stops, asin the k -sound of key.

b: the use of such a speech sound, or aspirate, in pronunciation.

5. Medicine/Medical.

a: the act of removing a fluid, as pus or serum, from a cavity of the body, by a hollow needle or trocar connected with a suction syringe.

b: the act of inhaling fluid or a foreign body into the bronchi and lungs,often after vomiting.

6. a ridiculously overused and underexplained phrase sneaking into the Lexicon of the Labour Party circa 2015. Seriously, it’s stupid. Stop it now.