(~s)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
An ~ is an idea or plan of what you are going to do.
Beveridge announced his ~ of standing for parliament...
Unfortunately, his good ~s never seemed to last long.
N-VAR: oft N of -ing, N to-inf
2.
If you say that you have no ~ of doing something, you are emphasizing that you are not going to do it. If you say that you have every ~ of doing something, you are emphasizing that you intend to do it.
We have no ~ of buying American jets...
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR -ing emphasis