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moving targets

moving targets is the plural of moving target.

Meaning of moving target

Noun

moving target (plural moving targets)

  1. A goal that is constantly changing.
    • 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.1997, “Foreword”, in Riki Anne Wilchins, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, →ISBN, page 15

Questions about moving targets

What is moving targets the plural of?
Moving targets is the plural of moving target.

Words near moving targets in the dictionary

  1. moving spirit
  2. moving spirits
  3. moving staircase
  4. moving staircases
  5. moving target
  6. moving targets
  7. moving the deckchairs on the Titanic
  8. moving the dial
  9. moving the goal posts
  10. moving the goalposts
  11. moving the needle

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