on-target

[on-tahr-git, awn-]

adjective

1. correct, accurate, or adhering closely to an anticipated outcome.

   an on-target forecast for the weekend weather.

Idioms and Phrases

Completely accurate, wholly valid, as in Our cost estimates were right on target, or His criticisms were on target. This seemingly old expression dates only from the mid-1900s, and the colloquial use of target for a goal one wishes to achieve dates from about 1940.

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