🎯 An aim point 🎯 To aim at 🎯 A person attacked 🏁 A goal

target

487 1.6

A goal a person or group tries to reach

noun
/ˈtɑːrɡɪt/

: objetivo

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Examples

She set a personal target to complete a marathon by the end of the year.
How about we set a reasonable target?

F1 (2025)
The parents agreed to reward the student when he or she met a specified target of appropriate behavior.

Academic text (2011)
We're gonna need detailed projections for all the target districts by the end of the week.

Fiction book (1995)
Conservation biologists must have a framework for thinking that includes targets for species recovery, as well as extinction avoidance.

Academic text (2011)
The team worked hard to achieve their sales target for the quarter.
In order to succeed, it's important to define a clear target for your project.

Synonyms

goal

vstarget

∞ 1.0

A result a person or group plans to achieve

describes any aim a person tries to reach not just planned result

end

vstarget

808 1.0

The aim of a plan or action

covers goals broadly not only planned action outcomes

objective

vstarget

509 3.7

A goal a person or group wants to achieve

is used for any goal someone aims to achieve

aim

vstarget

205 1.0

A goal someone wants to reach

is about a concrete goal rather than personal intention

object

vstarget

Formal

85 3.7

A goal someone wants to reach

is the intended goal rather than the motive for action

destination

vstarget

45 2.6

The goal someone wants to reach

is a general aim without stressing final or ultimate status

Idioms

dead on target

4.9

Exactly as you plan or expect

to hit the target dead on

3.9

To do something exactly right

Compounds

easy target

34 3.5

A person or thing people attack and take advantage of because it is weak

target practice

23 3.3

Shooting at objects to improve skill with guns or bows

target market

Jargon

9 2.8

A group of people most likely to buy a product or use a service

target area

9 3.9

A specific place people aim to hit, reach, or affect, for example in sport

target of opportunity

Jargon

3 7.4

A person or thing not planned for action but used when available

target range

1 3.7

A place where people practice shooting at targets for training or sport

radar target

Specialized

1 5.3

A mark on a radar screen that shows the position of a ship or plane

takeover target

Jargon

1 5.2

A company that another company or investor wants to buy

target area

Specialized

1 6.1

A part of DNA that scientists choose to study or copy in a lab

target company

Jargon

1 4.2

A company that another company wants to buy

target cell

Specialized

1 5.2

A cell that responds to a specific agent, like a hormone or a virus

target acquisition system

Specialized

7.6

A ship system that finds and shows where a target is to aim weapons

target cell

Specialized

8.4

A red blood cell with a dark ring around a dark center seen in some types of anemia

target program

Specialized

5.4

A program that is fully prepared to be loaded and run on a computer

target language

Specialized

3.7

The language that you translate a text into

target language

Specialized

6.6

The language that programmers translate code into so a computer can run it

target organ

Specialized

4.8

A body part that a drug or treatment affects

water-target

9.9

A water plant with floating oval leaves and purple flowers

How Ambitious

mission

245 3.4

ambition

310 2.8

target

487 1.6

goal

∞ 1.0

objective

509 3.7

aim

205 1.0

Surface Forms

target singular

targets plural

Etymology

Target comes from the old French targette meaning a 'small shield' that people aimed at. Because it was something you aimed for, the word came to mean a goal or objective you try to reach.