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on target

on target prepositional phrase: accurate, or accurately predicted.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Accurate, or accurately predicted.
    • The second quartile's figures were right on target.
    • But the elephants so moved me yesterday that I wanted very much to go [to the circus] again. My sother recognized that when she spoke to me on the phone and after the show she said, "I know when I'm dealing with a three-year old." She was exactly on target, as always.1983 December 24, Nancy Walker, “Pachyderms: A Delightful Regression”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 14
    Synonyms:
    spot on, cock on
  2. With accuracy.
    • Both shots landed on target.
    Synonyms:
    accurately
  3. Towards the goal.
    • Everton went close late on but managed just one attempt on target all match.2011 December 10, David Ornstein, “Arsenal 1 - 0 Everton”, in BBC Sport

on target meaning in Malayalam

on target in Malayalam

precise, accurate, unerring
ലക്ഷ്യത്തിൽ, കുറിക്ക്, കൃത്യമായി, സൂക്ഷ്മമായി, കിറുകൃത്യം, തെറ്റാതെ
on schedule, on track, on course
യഥാസമയത്ത്, കാലാകാലം, നിശ്ചിതപരിപാടിയനുസരിച്ച്, നിശ്ചിത പന്ഥാവിൽ, യഥാവിധി, യഥാക്രമം

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Questions about on target

What does on target mean?
On target means accurate, or accurately predicted.
What is on target in Malayalam?
On target in Malayalam is ലക്ഷ്യത്തിൽ, കുറിക്ക്, കൃത്യമായി. See On target meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is on target?
On target is a prepositional phrase.

Words near on target in the dictionary

  1. on sync
  2. on tag
  3. on talking terms
  4. on tap
  5. on tape
  6. on target
  7. on task
  8. on television
  9. on tender hooks
  10. on tenterhooks
  11. on tenters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: on target (page history and authors); on target (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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