"target" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

target verbo

target + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 93
target people • target areas • target groups • target civilians • target women • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 21
(1) people, audience, viewer
Kolokacji: 3
(2) area, cell, segment
Kolokacji: 3
(4) civilian, citizen, voter
Kolokacji: 3
(6) customer, consumer, smoker
Kolokacji: 3
(9) killing, assassination
Kolokacji: 2
(12) resource, assistance
Kolokacji: 2
(13) city, Israel
Kolokacji: 2
(14) site, radar
Kolokacji: 2
(15) foreigner, tourist, immigrant
Kolokacji: 3
(17) pod, species
Kolokacji: 2
(18) rate, disease
Kolokacji: 2
(19) American, criminal, Hispanic
Kolokacji: 3
1. target Americans = Amerykanie docelowi target Americans
2. target criminals = przestępcy docelowi target criminals
  • Members hope to convince Mr Milburn that he should be targeting criminals who find it easier than ever to get hold of an unlicensed firearm.
  • "The bottom line is," concluded Sutherland, "the INS has been successful in deporting hundreds of people who everyone agrees should not be deported, but unsuccessful in targeting truly dangerous criminals."
  • It also targeted criminals, paupers and 'undesirables', and made it illegal for aliens to promote industrial action - a response to fears of imported revolutionaries following the still recent Russian Revolution.
  • Pro-active Policing Units target persistent criminals and focus on specific operations.
  • Lang began by targeting minor mutant criminals such as Mesmero.
  • Detectives have established a special squad to target known criminals, but they say many break-ins are committed by burglars already on bail for earlier crimes.
  • The Iraqi government said the operation that began 25 March targeted criminals who had been carrying out indiscriminate attacks, burglaries and oil smuggling.
  • By the late 1870s, the groups were beginning to target criminals for punishment, and continued to carry out sporadic lynchings.
  • Marshall would typically target criminals who he had encountered in his courtroom but who he was forced to let go for technical reasons.
  • The Belize Police Department began an Anti-Crime Christmas campaign targeting criminals; as a result, the crime rates dropped in that month.
3. target Hispanics = Latynosi docelowi target Hispanics
(21) sequence, gene
Kolokacji: 2
verbo + target
Kolokacji: 3
begin targeting • start targeting • used to target
target + preposición
Kolokacji: 20
targeted at • targeted for • targeted to • target on • target in • ...
target + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 45
specifically targeted • primarily targeted • deliberately targeted • mainly target • directly target • ...

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