Shot on target là gì

an object shot at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which bullets, bombs, etc. are aimed:

I had four shots but I didn't even hit the target.

Any major airport or station is potentially a terrorist target.

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target noun (PERSON/GROUP)

C2 [ C usually singular ]

a person or a particular group of people that something is directed at, or that something is intended for:

The target audience for the TV series is young people aged 13 to 18.

C1 [ C usually singular ]

one or more people who are criticized or laughed at, or who experience unpleasant treatment from others:

Recently she has been the target of a series of obscene phone calls.

target noun (AIM)

B2 [ C ]

a level or situation that you intend to achieve:

The government's target of 3.5 percent annual growth seems easily attainable.

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aim (INTENTION)

ambition

aspiration (HOPE)

dream (HOPE)

goal (AIM)

hope

intent formal or specialized

intention

object (PURPOSE)

objective

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target

verb [ T ]

target verb [T] (DIRECT)

C2

to direct advertising, criticism, or a product at someone:

The advert for the energy drink is targeted specifically at young people.

target verb [T] (ATTACK)

to aim an attack, or a bullet, bomb, etc., at a particular object, place, or person:

It is hoped that civilians will not be targeted during the war.

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target

noun [ C ]

target noun [C] (OBJECT AIMED AT)

an object aimed and fired at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which arrows, bullets, bombs, and other missiles are aimed:

I missed the target.

The plane passed over the target.

A target is also a person or group attacked in some way:

The president was the main target of the senator’s speech.

target noun [C] (INTENDED RESULT)

a result or situation that you intend to achieve:

We met our sales target for the year.

Your calculations were on target (= accurate).

target

verb [ T ]

target verb [T] (AIM)

to direct an action, advertising, or a product at a particular person or group:

The paper is targeted at young people.

target verb [T] (AIM ATTACK)

to direct an attack or criticism against someone or something:

The candidate targeted his opponent's comments on the policy.

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target

noun [ C ]

MANAGEMENT, FINANCE, ECONOMICS, GOVERNMENT

a result, level, or situation that an organization or group wants or plans to achieve:

The company gave employees the details of performance targets for bonuses.

economic/financial targets

emissions/production/sales targets

earnings/inflation/budget targets

hit/meet/reach a target The French economy is on track to meet its growth targets.

lower/raise/reduce a target

exceed/miss/set a target The company has set a target of 10 million wholesale broadband connections by 2014.

a target date/level/price They plan to finish the manufacturing process by the new target date of October 31st.

MARKETING, POLITICS

a person, place, etc. that an action is directed at or intended for:

a/the target for sb/sth The abundance of resources makes these areas aprime target for development.

Savers have replaced borrowers as the priority target for banks and building societies.

a/the target of sth Their chief executive officer is the target of an investigation into fraud.

FINANCE  (also target company)

a company that another company wants to buy:

an acquisition/bid/buyout target Their plan is to be a buyer rather than a buyout target.

The City has tipped the group as a takeover target.

FINANCE, MARKETING  (also target price)

the price at which someone wants to buy or sell something:

Prices have remained below the $21 target because demand growth has been slow.

The investment house has a 1,125p target price on the shares.

 an easy target (for sb/sth)

someone or something that is easy to attack or criticize, often because they cannot defend themselves:

Advertisers view themselves as an easy target for regulators.

Big oil companies make easy targets for politicians anxious to take the heat off their own taxation policies.

 on target

if you are on target with a project, etc., you are likely to achieve what you planned at the time you intended:

The company's ambitious growth plans are on target.

on target to do sth We are on target to meet our sales goals for the coming year.

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target

verb [ T ]

MARKETING, POLITICS

to direct something, especially advertising or a product, at a particular group of people or a particular area:

aggressively/carefully/specifically target sb/sth The marketing campaign is specifically targeting a different type of customer.

target sth at sb/sth We need government restrictions on ads targeted at children.

target sth to sb/sth They plan to target the tax cut to the middle classes.

MANAGEMENT, FINANCE

to choose someone or something for a particular type of treatment:

target sb/sth for sth They have targeted the failing retailing group for takeover.

target sb/sth as sth Certain areas of manufacturing have been targeted as priorities.

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Results are also given in bold for cold targets with the same mass thickness as the two plasma targets.

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We are not targeting accurate predictions in the face of drastic unseen-before changes in workload patterns.

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The manager resource relies on the fact that the subject of the control verb has been identified as the control target's antecedent.

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What is crucial here is that the relevant constraint targets objects of type stem.

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One can find a detailed discussion of various assimilatory processes targeting consonants such as palatalization, nasalization and voicing.

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In this sense, targeting begins with the initial assessment.

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In their study, participants were required to make fast movements to targets that either remained stationary or jumped to a new location.

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The appearance of spontaneous errors depends on noise, but also on the relative confusability of the targets.

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Using the 11 mm figure, tests were conducted to see if the window for targeted control could be narrowed.

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However, in that study the ' 'high frequency' ' targets only ranged from 17 to 48 per million words, with an average of 31.

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In laboratory settings they occur on about 10 + 20% of attempts to retrieve low-frequency targets.

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In short, the target's translation ("dog") interferes with the retrieval of the target's name in the response language ("perro").

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In some triplets, number was held constant across all three pictures when gender was targeted and gender was held constant when number was targeted.

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Recall that six different types of errors were coded; three were semantically related to the targets and three were not.

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In any case, now that the big cosmetics companies were paying for research into alternatives, they were no longer available as targets.

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ambitious target

But the author has a more ambitious target of attack, the economists and historians whom he groups as "radical left scholars".

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attractive target

The authors note that this scenario presents an especially attractive target for class action lawyers (many similarly-situated plaintiffs and large dollar losses).

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binding target

The third-mentioned binding target unfortunately threatens to accelerate climate change.

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