moving target
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
moving target (plural moving targets)
- A goal that is constantly changing.
- 1997, “Foreword”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 15:
- Who knows what to call transpeople these days? The dominant discourse in the transcommunity is at best a moving target. Transgender began its life as a name for those folks who identified neither as crossdressers nor as transexuals—primarily people who changed their gender but not their genitals.
- 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club[1]:
- There’s palpable peril in the squadron’s ever-mounting bombing runs, and Cathcart’s moving target of a mission quota makes a clever parallel to contemporary America’s Forever War, but the flight sequences wind up acquiring a deadening repetitiousness
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Further reading[edit]
- “a moving target” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “moving target”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “moving target” (US) / “moving target” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.