Noun

1. A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

   Take careful aim at the target.

2. A goal or objective.

   They have a target to finish the project by November.

3. A kind of small shield or buckler, used as a defensive weapon in war.
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act II, Scene IV, line 200,

     These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus.

4. A shield resembling the Roman scutum. In modern usage, a smaller variety of shield is usually implied by this term.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22,

     The target or buckler was carried by the heavy armed foot, it answered to the scutum of the Romans; its form was sometimes that of a rectangular parallelogram, but more commonly had its bottom rounded off; it was generally convex, being curved in its breadth.

5. The pattern or arrangement of a series of hits made by a marksman on a butt or mark.

   He made a good target.

6. The sliding crosspiece, or vane, on a leveling staff.
7. A conspicuous disk attached to a switch lever to show its position, or for use as a signal.
8. the number of runs that the side batting last needs to score in the final innings in order to win
9. The tenor of a metaphor.
10. The translated version of a document, or the language into which translation occurs.

    Do you charge by source or target?

Verb

1. To aim something, especially a weapon, at (a target).
2. To aim for as an audience or demographic.

   The advertising campaign targeted older women.