I.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a realistic goal/target
▪ Set realistic goals for yourself.
a sales target
▪ It achieved only 20% of its sales target.
easy target
▪ The soldiers on the streets are an easy target for terrorists.
fall short of a goal/target/ideal
▪ The economy fell short of the Treasury’s target of 2% growth.
hit...target
▪ The bomb failed to hit its target.
moving target
▪ an archer learning to hit a moving target
performance targets
▪ Several train operators failed to meet the performance targets.
production levels/targets etc
reduction targets
▪ The agreement set strict reduction targets for carbon emissions.
sb's target weight (=the weight someone is trying to be)
▪ I've reached my target weight.
soft target
target practice (=practice shooting at something)
▪ The area is used by the army for target practice.
the target audience (=the type of people a programme etc aims to attract)
▪ The target audience is mostly men aged 28 to 35.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
easy
▪ It's always sad when a figure of fun, an easy target for a laugh, disappears into oblivion.
▪ It was a natural and easy target for newspapers.
▪ Such an organization would have been an easy target for Labour's disciplinarians.
▪ That makes them easy targets for mining industry recruiters.
▪ You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easy target for any animal seeking fresh meat.
▪ So we opt for cheap grace, and easy targets, instead.
▪ Well, the reader may say, he's small fry, an easy target.
▪ Young people are an easy target.
financial
▪ Each year business managers draw up a budget and suggest a series of financial targets.
▪ Then we need to set a measurable financial target.
▪ Objectives were still too diffuse to be encompassed within the scope of financial targets.
▪ Indeed, tighter financial targets increasingly conflicted with the consensual political decision to maintain a certain size of railway system.
▪ Both governments also attempted to control the financial demands of the railways by strengthening the framework of financial targets and constraints.
▪ To this rather limited extent, the methods seem unexceptionable. Financial targets came in earlier, in the 1961 White Paper.
▪ We have also set some demanding but attainable financial targets.
▪ We made every financial target they set us.
main
▪ The main target is striped dolphin, because it is the easiest to capture.
▪ Brown main target Brown was speaker of the Assembly and had been in the Legislature for three decades.
▪ The main target for pirates are computer games that run on microcomputers.
▪ If we had drilled that prospect, we would have missed our main target.
▪ With bigger fish in serious decline, mackerel, sardines and anchovies are now the main targets.
▪ The civilian became the soldiers' main target.
▪ Dace and roach on the Salmon Hall stretch but chub main target to big baits.
▪ The first main targets are the central government buildings and the radio station.
obvious
▪ Dysart was an obvious target: ex-Navy, Ministry of Defence, outspoken in support of the Union.
▪ New auditors are for ever charging at birth as an obvious target.
▪ Far from being impartial, he had an obvious target.
▪ Clearly the review might shift this balance making pensions the obvious target.
▪ My cousin was simply the easiest and most obvious target.
▪ Child benefit may be another obvious target for the departmental review.
▪ It has been an obvious target for economy-minded governments.
▪ They were an obvious target for hungry birds and were easily picked off.
prime
▪ The prime target market, then, is seen to be pre-retirement.
▪ Although nationally distributed boxes do not change fronts often, the regional ones do, making them a prime target for collectors.
▪ The cults would be the prime targets: their acolytes would be dispersed, their leaders bought off or incarcerated.
▪ It was clear the police were looking for reporters, that they were prime targets.
▪ The law and order section is a prime target for every kind of scam.
▪ It should shrivel in ineptitude.. Prime target.
▪ All of these conditions are making hospitals a prime target for reform.
soft
▪ First, an overwhelming urge to find a market researcher and kick him or her hard on a soft target area.
▪ First, Barak was no soft target.
■ NOUN
area
▪ First, an overwhelming urge to find a market researcher and kick him or her hard on a soft target area.
▪ The plan was not area specific, thus loans and grants would simply be made available in all eligible first-year target areas.
▪ But just into the third there was movement around the target area.
▪ We know the terrain in the target area is complicated, rugged.
▪ The approach involves identifying variations in the functioning of target areas and relating those variations to known differences in cortical function.
▪ After completing one circuit, each bird dives out of the sky into the aquatic target area.
▪ For details of schemes in the target areas and general advice on rural out-of-school schemes, ring her.
▪ Finally, the plan registered a clear commitment to limit program benefits to the designated target areas.
attainment
▪ Pupils with physical disabilities Pupils with physical disabilities should in general have the same attainment targets and programmes of study as their peers.
▪ All of the attainment targets can be assessed at various levels, with corresponding programmes of study leading towards them.
▪ Good historical practice will usually ensure that the attainment targets are covered many times over in the course of the work.
▪ On several occasions we spent weekends working furiously hard in small groups at drafts of attainment targets and programmes of study.
▪ For each attainment target we have recommended statements of attainment and programmes of study at up to 10 levels.
▪ Therefore, we do not recommend that there should be a handwriting attainment target after level 4.
▪ This means that teachers must try to think simultaneously about the attainment targets and the statements of attainment within the levels.
audience
▪ Most of its students are the provincial poor, the target audience of leftist guerrilla groups.
▪ The key is to analyze the target audience, Half said.
▪ It is worth reiterating here the point that the media offer a means of influencing your target audiences.
▪ The team rejected traditional Biblical phrasing, figuring they would be unfamiliar or unappealing to the target audience.
▪ But, as Mr Malik kept reminding him, this was not the target audience of the school.
▪ The key target audience for the reports was overwhelmingly stated as being the company's own employees.
company
▪ The offeror will then be obliged to bid to acquire all the shares in the target company.
▪ It may be used to acquire control of a target company as an alternative to a takeover offer.
▪ The result is that the shareholders in the target company become the majority shareholders in the acquiring company.
▪ The target company will also assemble a similar team in a contested bid.
▪ X, an officer at Kleinwort Benson, telephoned D and told him that the target company had accepted a new offer.
▪ In determining whether the City Code applies it is the nature of the target company which is relevant.
▪ Stage 3: Additional criteria would be defined and agreed with the client to compile the shortlist of target companies.
▪ The requirement for disclosure of information in the proposed Directive is aimed at protecting the interests of shareholders of the target company.
date
▪ The target date has now been moved to 1 January 1994.
▪ December 1998 is the target date for completion of all the improvements.
▪ The absence of a target date by which the Protestant/Catholic unemployment differential would be significantly reduced is partly explained by this.
▪ The target date to begin providing services is July.
▪ It may be that August 1 would now have to be a more realistic target date.
▪ Mr Mates replies that the target date for doing so at Belfast Prison is not until the year 2000.
▪ The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year, but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993.
▪ The target date has been postponed to 2015.
group
▪ The corollary of tax breaks for target groups and desirable business behaviour is the need for identification and proof of qualification.
▪ I think gay people have become a target group for people who no longer target racial minorities.
▪ The other major target group is those hospitalised with infectious illnesses.
▪ Providing prevention materials to state health departments will ensure that target groups have ready access to such materials.
▪ Passport schemes are a price discrimination device which allows subsidies to be directed towards target groups.
▪ The drinks industry circulates briefing packs consisting of audio and visual material to its target groups.
▪ As far as coverage is concerned, this comes out of the definition of the target group and the media available to reach it.
▪ The differences, where there are any, will be dictated by the target group of learners and their particular needs.
growth
▪ As a result, in the 1987 Budget, the growth target for M3 was formally abandoned.
▪ The government has said it will revise down its initial 2. 8 percent growth target in coming weeks.
▪ Objectively the chances of reaching the Chancellor's 3 percent growth target in 1994 are mixed at best.
▪ The most lengthy and energetic discussion occurred around financial goals because both groups had surprised themselves by setting very high growth targets.
▪ From 1968 onwards, the growth targets became somewhat lower but continued to be too optimistic.
▪ The Bundesbank officially bases its interest rate policy on M3 growth and sets a growth target each year.
▪ The growth target for M3 will remain at 5 percent a year in the medium-term, Trichet said.
language
▪ Decide from the very beginning that your aim is to use the target language as much as possible in the sessions.
▪ This creates additional problems of target language suitability, problems which have yet to be solved.
▪ Is the contact of the learner with the target language group likely to be intermittent rather than extensive?
▪ For this reason, spoken language interpreters are specifically trained to reject the effects of their utterance of the target language.
▪ This can happen when the target language has a grammatical category which the source language lacks.
▪ You can use a camera in the classroom to let learners see and hear themselves communicating in the target language.
▪ Differential grammar enables us to determine some of the main grammatical difficulties involved in learning the target language.
▪ Module 1 is designed for beginners ie those with no prior knowledge of the target language.
market
▪ The prime target market, then, is seen to be pre-retirement.
▪ Each make had the performance, appearance, and handling characteristics suited to the lifestyle and needs of its target market.
▪ You are not a target market.
▪ But the manufacturers of meat substitutes say vegetarians are a small niche in their target market.
▪ If the product is a child's toy then the target market will clearly be important.
▪ In a marketing sense, you seek 100 percent share of your target market.
▪ Unfortunately, the target market also want to smoke at every available opportunity.
▪ Housing activists argue the agency could sell more houses if it were more adept at reaching its target market.
practice
▪ It is merely target practice using live targets.
▪ He knew that on these streets young kids with guns used people on the sidewalks for target practice.
▪ Firstly in a country full of guns it doesn't do to stand there asking to become target practice.
▪ A downtown establishment has always made for satisfying target practice.
▪ After sundown, a bit of target practice on the estate, using his collection of sophisticated weapons.
▪ For the cynics of the world, Philip Gould is easy target practice.
▪ It ensured that no trigger-happy missile controller would fail to observe the safety precautions and attempt a little target practice.
▪ Prisoners taken were blinded, mutilated, dragged behind the hooves of horses and used as target practice by archers.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ How can they achieve maximum or target levels of profits or sales without precise information concerning their revenues and costs?
▪ The tendency to achieve planned targets by whatever means is well known in other Eastern block countries.
▪ Your own work objectives will, in turn, help to achieve these targets.
▪ The new group did not in fact achieve its target of 100,000 pledged supporters and had faded away by March.
▪ Actual performance is recorded and the information fed back to the managers responsible for achieving the target performance.
▪ We may receive some payment in September 1994 if we achieve targets.
▪ With Thames privatised, it is a private sector project with appropriate incentives paid to workers who achieve their targets.
▪ Success is when you achieve your target 20 percent return on assets at the year's end.
hit
▪ They hope to hit a target of £10,000.
▪ A rotten Big Boy hitting the target is a memorable sound.
▪ The Lancasters had to drop the bouncing bomb from precisely sixty feet to hit their target.
▪ She sensed that in hitting the target, Ronnie had reinforced his daily lesson of entitlement.
▪ The ball couldn't have bounced better for Steve White, who took aim and and hit the target with some style.
▪ The large drops leave the spray behind and pass on to hit the target.
▪ A pistol like this can hit somewhere near its target.
▪ My man, the bag, was hit in each target location twice.
identify
▪ The initial emphasis was on speakers and their ability to encode messages sufficiently clearly to enable listeners to identify the target object.
▪ A good objective has to identify a target in very precise terms.
▪ We need to identify the target market.
▪ Begin by identifying the target behavior and the time frame in which it occurs.
▪ At once more flares were identifying the target area and a fair concentration of bombs directed on the aiming point.
▪ First we identify our target and set a measurable objective that states from where to where by when.
▪ It had to identify new target markets.
▪ These examples illustrate the central problem of characterising chromosomal deletions - how do you know when you have identified the target gene?
meet
▪ However some branches have managed to make good progress towards meeting their target.
▪ But the company failed to meet that target, Hashagen said.
▪ When do the Government expect to meet the target for overseas aid of 0.7 percent. of gross national product?
▪ This means that savings of around 10 million tons will have to be found to meet the target.
▪ The trick is to meet the target projected for the current fiscal year and to do this by 15 October.
▪ They are set targets by higher management, and it is their responsibility to meet those targets.
▪ Officials calculated that the council would have to invest £500,000 per year to meet the target.
▪ High offer ratios often reflect the relative difficulty of meeting the targets for a small number of fields.
miss
▪ These attacks missed their political targets, though they left a child dead.
▪ But the interceptor missed its target in a second test in January.
▪ All of the missiles missed their target and the attacks resulted in no casualties and little damage to property.
▪ What if he missed the target now?
▪ I can't confirm that but I do remember the one occasion that he missed his target.
▪ It missed the target by several feet.
▪ They missed their target but killed eighteen bystanders and injured many more.
▪ If we had drilled that prospect, we would have missed our main target.
reach
▪ Within a week of launching the Oxfam Cold Front Appeal we reached our target of half a million coats and jumpers.
▪ Enemy radar must have detected our approach, for Hurricane fighters came out to intercept before we reached the target.
▪ The danger is that the pressure to reach target leads you to exaggerate chargeable hours.
▪ Yet in the 1980s Britain missed its chance to reach for those targets.
▪ Housing activists argue the agency could sell more houses if it were more adept at reaching its target market.
▪ According to the study, the means-tested benefit is reaching its targets more often and more effectively than many had feared.
▪ They then reached their target for the loss of three wickets.
set
▪ Most of us set ourselves personal targets: four laps within six minutes, for example.
▪ The most lengthy and energetic discussion occurred around financial goals because both groups had surprised themselves by setting very high growth targets.
▪ A realistic plan sets achievable targets against which progress can be monitored.
▪ Promise Keepers declined to set attendance targets.
▪ And that's a problem for the Government, which has set targets for cutting the number of deaths on the roads.
▪ The Bundesbank officially bases its interest rate policy on M3 growth and sets a growth target each year.
▪ Self-assessment is a key feature of the module and students should set targets for themselves based on their initial self-assessment.
▪ Furthermore, firms may set themselves several targets and not simply restrict themselves to the sole target of profit maximisation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moving target
▪ As always, this is a moving target.
▪ At its best, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is a game of how to master a moving target.
▪ Duration is a moving target as rates and portfolios change, though it is already used by many managers.
▪ Nobody hits a moving target and you can quote me.
▪ Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.
be a prime candidate/target (for sth)
▪ And if you understood that, you are a prime target for the party's newest election weapon.
▪ In addition, any enemy hit by a net is a prime target for a club attack as explained below.
▪ It was clear the police were looking for reporters, that they were prime targets.
▪ Joseph was a prime candidate for deportation.
▪ The law and order section is a prime target for every kind of scam.
▪ The school meals service is a prime target in the government's plans for bringing in outside contractors.
▪ Vinyl and aluminum siding are prime candidates to take flight in a high wind.
▪ We would have thought this was a prime candidate for disclosure.
find its mark/target
▪ But now their enmity found its target in the flesh.
▪ I doubt whether it could have found its target but the very shape of it in my hands was reassuring.
▪ It found its mark; one of the suitors fell dying to the floor.
intended target/victim/destination etc
▪ After they failed to find their intended victim, they embarked on an indiscriminate anti-foreigner rampage.
▪ Eloise was capable of what almost amounted to mesmerism, so thoroughly did she take in her intended victims.
▪ It can not move and shoot in the same turn, except that it can be turned to face its intended target.
▪ Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim.
▪ Satisfied his intended victim was asleep, he gripped the door handle and turned it slowly.
▪ Was the call-girl the intended victim?
▪ We are near our intended target and head directly there with a vector supplied from above, but we find nothing.
▪ What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?
meet a goal/target etc
▪ Employees who work off-site are evaluated on their ability to work independently yet communicate with their team to meet goals.
▪ Headquarters motivates managers to meet targets in time-honoured style: carrot and stick.
▪ Its only hope of meeting targets was to purchase the right to pollute from less prosperous nations.
▪ The good news was that chief executive Crispin Davis insisted the company was on track to meet targets for 2002.
reach a target/goal
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Holding a US passport makes these tourists a prime target for terrorists.
▪ I set myself a target of learning 20 new words each week.
▪ Kay was the target of a noisy demonstration in which 54 people were arrested.
▪ Our target is the release of all political prisoners.
▪ The target for the appeal is £20,000, all of which will go to children's charities.
▪ The bomb missed its target by several kilometres.
▪ The commonly used roads are the targets of heavy fire.
▪ The Communist Party has become the main target for critical attack among left wing intellectuals.
▪ The company will reach its target of 12% growth this year.
▪ The GIA continued its attacks on civilian targets.
▪ The government is struggling to reach its original target of $23 billion in spending cuts.
▪ The Institution has been the target of terrorist attack several times.
▪ We produced 16,000 cars this year, but our target was 17,500.
▪ When the plane gets to the target area, it drops the missile and returns to base.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But just into the third there was movement around the target area.
▪ He set the wage levels, the production targets, the safety standards, and he really planned the whole industry.
▪ Hiring at the three previous centers took about twice as long as the company's 60-day target, Norden said.
▪ How can they achieve maximum or target levels of profits or sales without precise information concerning their revenues and costs?
▪ It has been given the lowest efficiency target in the country by the Government's new Passenger's Charter.
▪ Now, by budget resolutions, it establishes targets in May and final ceilings in September.
▪ The company, named for a friend who died from an infection, would search for new targets for antibiotics.
II.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
▪ The data collected will then be used to target areas of public health which need most improvement.
▪ Targeting particular sectors sounds fine, but other strong competitors may already be targeting the very same areas.
▪ It is important to prioritize and target areas which reflect on the key areas of the operation.
audience
▪ He says they're targeting a unique audience of young adults.
company
▪ The company is targeting financial and medical markets.
▪ The company is targeting the business, home, school and Third-World markets.
▪ The company may then target its efforts on these preferred locations.
▪ The diet companies are targeting new markets outside their traditional client base of fairly affluent, young to middle-aged white women.
▪ Commercial Union is one of several major insurance companies to target the Grey market with specially designed policies in the past year.
▪ He is president of Graham Gregory Bozell Inc., a marketing company targeting black consumers.
market
▪ They target aircraft at specific markets.
▪ The diet companies are targeting new markets outside their traditional client base of fairly affluent, young to middle-aged white women.
▪ The company is targeting financial and medical markets.
▪ Some scientists were dissatisfied with Gould's decision to target such an elitist market.
▪ Commercial Union is one of several major insurance companies to target the Grey market with specially designed policies in the past year.
people
▪ But firearms enthusiasts, who shoot for pleasure, have accused politicians of targeting the wrong people.
▪ It will target specifically chosen people in an effort to help them make links with the changing climate.
▪ Surely all hon. Members would argue that it is wrong for the industry to be able to target young people.
▪ But a spokesman for the club said many enthusiasts believed politicians were targeting the wrong people.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a moving target
▪ As always, this is a moving target.
▪ At its best, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings is a game of how to master a moving target.
▪ Duration is a moving target as rates and portfolios change, though it is already used by many managers.
▪ Nobody hits a moving target and you can quote me.
▪ Only the top half of her body was visible, and she resembled a moving target on a shooting gallery.
be a prime candidate/target (for sth)
▪ And if you understood that, you are a prime target for the party's newest election weapon.
▪ In addition, any enemy hit by a net is a prime target for a club attack as explained below.
▪ It was clear the police were looking for reporters, that they were prime targets.
▪ Joseph was a prime candidate for deportation.
▪ The law and order section is a prime target for every kind of scam.
▪ The school meals service is a prime target in the government's plans for bringing in outside contractors.
▪ Vinyl and aluminum siding are prime candidates to take flight in a high wind.
▪ We would have thought this was a prime candidate for disclosure.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, they tried to link training placement to jobs, or to target construction jobs on local people.
▪ Ireland is more ruthless still in targeting public health care.
▪ The company may then target its efforts on these preferred locations.
▪ These and other economic development proposals have emphasized targeting and leveraging to get maximum use of the federal dollars.
▪ Warshaw says Waxman and other critics have charged that police are targeting black neighborhoods.