Ambition

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to Covet.

II. Ambition ·noun The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

III. Ambition ·noun An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.