as a target vs as a goal

Both 'as a target' and 'as a goal' are correct phrases, but they are used in slightly different contexts. 'As a target' is often used in the context of aiming at something specific or measurable, while 'as a goal' is more commonly used to refer to a desired outcome or objective.

Last updated: March 27, 2024

as a target

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to something specific or measurable that one is aiming at or trying to achieve.

Examples:

The company set sales targets for the upcoming quarter.
Her main target is to improve her English speaking skills.
The archer aimed at the target and hit the bullseye.

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At its rated speed, the drone should have reached Los Angeles, so we can eliminate us as a target.
I should like to suggest that the Commission sets the year 2000 as a target date.
I picked Edwin Borstein as a target.
You choose Voight as a target, you can't be that smart.
NSA just intercepted some chatter identifying the summit as a target.
The figure of 0.46 % of GNP for the Structural Fund should be seen as a target but not a ceiling.
She's the type Who could go on a spree and take out anyone she sees as a target.
Why have you chosen officer barnes as a target of your vengeance?
The economic growth set as a target in the strategy is at the same time a prerequisite for emerging from the labour market and social crisis.
Secondly, I would say also that this issue should be included as a target in the CAP reform, which is coming up shortly, so that we do have self-sufficiency in protein production.
Image: the image is used as a target.
Abstract base type representing a linear network element that may be used as a target in linear referencing.
Parliament's budget is EUR 923779000, with an unused margin of almost 21 million, which confirms that we have always understood this margin not as a target but as an expenditure ceiling.
It was hugely attractive that we could be members of a Europe which could envisage as a target increasing economic competitiveness, job creation and at the same time the spreading of the values of a social Europe across the whole of Europe.
That is, for me, the sign of a rapporteur who, in a real sense, chooses to respect and apply the budget as a ceiling of expenditure and not as a target for expenditure.
During the period considered, profitability of the sampled producers increased considerably, exceeding significantly, in each year of the period considered, the level of profitability set as a target profit in the original investigation.
DKT emphasises that DSB's profits are clearly in excess of the 6 % return on equity fixed by the Danish State as a target for DSB, and DKT assesses these profits at DKK 3,678 billion,
[OVERTV] Some officials have speculated that Gordon's departure may help de-escalate violence from the Mutants, as the mysterious Mutant Leader has repeatedly singled out the commissioner as a target.
It also asks Member States to treat the SGP's 3% deficit limit not as a target, but as a ceiling never to be breached.
Remove yourself as a target and the pursuer will eventually tire.

Alternatives:

as an objective
as a goal
as a destination
as an aim
as a point of focus

as a goal

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to a desired outcome or objective that one is working towards or trying to achieve.