intended target

collocation in English

meaningsofintendedandtarget

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intended
noun[C usually singular]
uk
/ɪnˈten.dɪd/us
/ɪnˈten.dɪd/
the person that you are going ...
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target
noun
uk
/ˈtɑː.ɡɪt/us
/ˈtɑːr.ɡɪt/
an object shot at during shooting practice, often a circle with a pattern of rings, or any object or place at which bullets, bombs, etc. ...
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(Definition ofintendedandtargetfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofintended target

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Moreover, the argument itself is, in fact, harmless against itsintendedtarget.
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The miscommunication does not hit itsintendedtarget, so to speak; but it had a target.
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On each page one picture was theintendedtarget.
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She presented listeners with intact, noise-replaced, and noise-added versions of words and asked the listeners to identify theintendedtarget.
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Moreover, the purpose of the instrument, itsintendedtargetgroup, its method and length of administration, and how it is scored are reported, if the information was available.
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The extent to which personal pensions were taken up by theintendedtargetgroup or by those unlikely to benefit is assessed.
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To further improve the cache behavior, other loop transformations have to be applied that take into account the cache characteristics of theintendedtargethardware.
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As such, in contrast to shared data space models, theintendedtargetof communication is always unique and internally known to the system.
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Ironically, a series of structures were finally obtained at the turn of the millennium, none of which had been theintendedtargetof crystallisation.
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Recall that in the prior studies, relational criteria were employed with direct mappings between a speaker's output andintendedtargetsounds.
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It hits theintendedtargetand that target alone.
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Nor will it hit itsintendedtarget: the fat cats.
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We cannot support a scheme that is badly managed and misses itsintendedtarget.
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We have some evidence that the scheme is missing itsintendedtarget.
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To a layman, £10 seems to be a remarkably small deviation from theintendedtarget.
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The coalition goes to exceptional lengths to avoid hitting anything other than theintendedtarget, including through the use of very strict target clearance procedures and precision guided munitions.
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For these reasons we are confident that, in the vast majority of cases, ordnance released by coalition aircraft lands on or very close to itsintendedtarget.
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The official classes, which are presumably theintendedtargetof sanctions suffer least; the middle classes struggle; and the poor suffer real deprivation.
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Officials consider theintendedtargetaudience of the leaflet, whether the audience is likely to have internet access and the cost of publishing the document in hard copy.
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Response to the scheme has been encouraging so far and indications are that it is attracting the interest of theintendedtargetgroup.
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