Usually means: Objective or goal to achieve.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. target: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. target: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. target: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. target: Collins English Dictionary
  5. target: Vocabulary.com
  6. Target, target: Wordnik
  7. target: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. target: Wiktionary
  9. target: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. target: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. target: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Target, target: Dictionary.com
  13. target: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. target: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TARGET (CAD software), TARGET, Target (American TV series), Target (American band), Target (Australia), Target (British TV series), Target (Flower Flower album), Target (New Zealand TV series), Target (U.S. TV series), Target (UK TV series), Target (album), Target (band), Target (company), Target (disambiguation), Target (journal), Target (magazine), Target (project), Target (rapper), Target (video game), Target, The Target (Baldacci novel), The Target (EP), The Target (The Office), The Target (The Wire), The Target (The Wire episode), The Target (film), The Target (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Target: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. target: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. target: Rhymezone
  19. target: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. target: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. target: Free Dictionary
  22. target: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. target: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Target: World Wide Words
  25. target: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. The Target: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. target: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. TARGET: Accounting Glossary
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Target (disambiguation), target: Legal dictionary
  7. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Target: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. target: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. target: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. Target (disambiguation), target: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Target (disambiguation), target: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. TARGET: Acronym Finder
  5. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  6. Target: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. target: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Target: Easton Bible
  2. TARGET: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. target: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Target (offensive), Target (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. target: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Target: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.
noun:  A goal or objective.
noun:  An object of criticism or ridicule.
noun:  A person, place, or thing that is frequently attacked, criticized, or ridiculed.
noun:  A kind of shield:
noun:  A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
noun:  (obsolete) A shield resembling the Roman scutum, larger than the modern buckler.
noun:  (heraldry) A bearing representing a buckler.
noun:  (sports) The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.
noun:  (surveying) The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
noun:  (rail transport) A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
noun:  (cricket) the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
noun:  (linguistics) The tenor of a metaphor.
noun:  (mathematics, category theory) The codomain of a function; the object at which a morphism points.
noun:  (translation studies) The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.
noun:  A person (or group of people) that a person or organization is trying to employ or to have as a customer, audience etc.
noun:  (UK, dated) A thin cut; a slice; specifically, of lamb, a piece consisting of the neck and breast joints.
noun:  (Scotland, obsolete) A tassel or pendant.
noun:  (Scotland, obsolete) A shred; a tatter.
verb:  (transitive) To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To aim for as an audience or demographic.
verb:  (transitive, computing) To produce code suitable for.

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