The phrase "a specific purpose to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the intended goal or objective of an action or project.
Example: "The committee was formed with a specific purpose to improve community engagement and participation."
Alternatives: "a particular aim to" or "a defined objective to".
I admire that they don't seem to waste time hating each other if there isn't a specific purpose to it.
They were taken with a specific purpose – to be used in the determination by experts not only of why she died, but how.
That mass terror has a specific purpose: to build the conditions for a great war of global domination, which ISIS believes it will win.
Labor's higher education spokesman, Kim Carr, said the Gillard government had proposed the savings for a specific purpose – to target imbalances and inequalities in the school funding system.
What if they too decided that art had a specific purpose – to make us a bit more sane, or a little bit wiser and kinder – and tried to use the art in their possession to prompt us to be so?
But some tyrants were chosen by the state to rule with a specific purpose: to put an end to civil war, to impose a new code of law, or to offer leadership in a time of danger.
The xx has just finished a ten-day run, at the Park Avenue Armory, of a show with no name but a very specific purpose: to disorient you, bring you close, and then throw you back into the void.
By Sasha Frere-Jones April 1, 2014 The xx has just finished a ten-day run, at the Park Avenue Armory, of a show with no name but a very specific purpose: to disorient you, bring you close, and then throw you back into the void.
The very deliberate policy of converting political struggles into religious ones had a very specific purpose: to induce fear of an impending threat to western way of life from encroaching radical Islam so that the population of the west would fall in line behind Bush and his neocon policies.
We made it for a very specific purpose: to communicate the potentials for visual representation in a world of amorphous computing.
Then we had Guillermo Kuitca who stayed at the farm for five weeks back in the summer of 2013 with a very specific purpose to paint the dining room in the farm house as an installation piece.
