The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - saken.

1) benefit, welfare, well-being, good, advantage, behalf, profit, gain, account: Joe and I stayed together for the sake of the children. She felt pleased, for his sake, that he had managed to get away. 2) purpose(s) , reason(s) , objective(s) : Just for the sake of comparison, let us now look at the situation in Taiwan.