moving target
English
Noun
moving target (plural moving targets)
- A goal that is constantly changing
- 2019 May 16, Erik Adams, “A potent satire has its wings clipped in Catch-22”, in The A.V. Club:
- 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
- “a moving target” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “moving target” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “moving target” (US) / “moving target” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.