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View synonyms for on-target

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.



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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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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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