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• on-target
  on-target

  adjective

  correct, accurate, or adhering closely to an anticipated outcome.
• on target
  on target

  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.

on-target

American  

[on-tahr-git, awn-] / ˈɒnˈtɑr gɪt, ˈɔn- /

adjective

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

   an on-target forecast for the weekend weather.

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on target Idioms  

1. 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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