The phrase "a purposeful move" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that is intentional and has a specific goal or reason behind it.
Example: "The team's decision to pivot their strategy was a purposeful move aimed at increasing market share."
Alternatives: "an intentional action" or "a deliberate step".
"It was on the right side of the bumper … It was more of a purposeful move".
Although the Soviet halt outside Warsaw was a purposeful move, it is true that the unprecedented length and speed of the Red Army's advance 450 miles in five weeks—had overstrained the Soviet communications.
But this album is a purposeful move into Top 40 that misses the quirk of well written pop and the sonic inventions of EDM.
"Work" is, as you hopefully know by now, a song sung by Rihanna in Jamaican patois — a purposeful move, as her natural manner of speaking is Bajan patois, because she is from Barbados, which is different.
Their stories are central to "Scout's Honor," a purposeful and often moving -- if not artfully constructed -- documentary about organized efforts to overturn the Boy Scouts' antigay policy.
Help your grown-up kids create a purposeful agenda that moves them toward a self-sufficient future.
In 1861, Willis allowed the Home Journal to break its pledge to avoid taking sides in political discussions when the Confederate States of America was established, calling the move a purposeful act to bring on war.
They were in starched white shirts and paper hats, and moved with a purposeful discipline.
The effect was of a purposeful woman, wearing useful, easy-to-move-in clothes, but nothing that announced her as a female of the species.
We call on the government to take a lead and collect and publicise statistics on female victims of male violence to move the debate towards a purposeful search for solutions".
Glasgow put 11 points between the sides in the 48th minute when Jackson initiated a purposeful counter-attack and Van der Merwe finished off a slick move down the left involving four players.
