curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-talk-about-numbers-with-a-coworker/6847ff3df8fb3b46267e0a94.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
Specifically, one-fourth of this portion is BLANK back-end development, which is crucial given our scalability goals.
directed towards
This two-word phrase means that something is aimed at or used for a specific purpose.
Directed towards means something is assigned, focused, or aimed at a particular area or goal. For example:
A large part of the funding was directed towards research and development. — This means the money was intentionally used for that area.
In Alice's sentence, she means part of the budget is being used for back-end development.
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