target date

noun

: the date set for an event or for the completion of a project, goal, or quota

Examples of target date in a Sentence

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The target dates published in the Unified Agenda are only estimates, not firm deadlines, the agency has said. Michelle Garcia, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025 But residents of Auburn Gresham have seen target dates for their supermarket’s reopening come and go. Talia Soglin, Chicago Tribune, 16 Jan. 2025 The timing of the target date fund changes is similar to another recent Vanguard legal run-in. Jesse Pound,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 17 Jan. 2025 In the past few months, he’s switched his voter registration address to Manhattan, has spoken with a potential campaign manager and has been floating early February as a target date for a potential announcement, according to a source familiar with the matter. Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for target date 

Word History

First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of target date was in 1945

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“Target date.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/target%20date. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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