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Strive or aim for, as in We're shooting for higher production by spring . This term, alluding to aiming at something with a weapon, has largely replaced the earlier shoot at , which dates from the 1400s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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