What does shoot for mean?

shoot for means "have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal".

What is another word for shoot for?

Close synonyms include draw a bead on, aspire, aim. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoot for a common word?

shoot for is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

shoot for — meaning, pronunciation and definition

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
Synonymsdraw a bead on aspire aim
Broaderplan
Narrowerovershoot

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