Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shot fired with a rifle.
- noun One who shoots with a rifle.
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Examples
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When they had drifted out of rifle-shot they clambered over the sides and paddled ashore.
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He was on foot, crossing diagonally over the meadow to the north-west just out of rifle-shot from us.
Chapter 13 2010
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Some in the industry want "rifle-shot targeting," Mr. Morgan says, where people get "only those ads they care about."
TV's Next Wave: Tuning In to You Jessica E. Vascellaro 2011
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DLA "helped rifle-shot our business plan to the investors that were most likely to be interested," Mr. Evans says.
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Genderreform of senatorial bodies is a rifle-shot remedy for the single-mostglaring defect in our patriarchal political systems.
GENDER RECONSTITUTION AMENDMENT - Equal Representation In The Senate 2009
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Using currency adjustments – i.e., intentionally demolishing the value of our own currency - instead of temporary, rifle-shot, tariff measures to balance and incentivize trade, is ruinous idiocy.
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"These are rifle-shot hires for the odd one or two CEOs who need to bring that expertise in from the outside," he says.
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Others take a rifle-shot approach, targeting foreign markets or even betting that the price of oil will fall.
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Ironically, the rifle-shot, high-tech approach may ultimately create more political problems for Japan in America than the "throw money at anything" 1980s did.
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In particular, those formidable buffets, which make one ball spin through the air like a rifle-shot, and strike another down into the very earth it is placed upon, by the mal-adroitness, or the malicious purpose of the player — what are they but parallels to the favourable or depreciating notices of the reviewers, who play at golf with the publications of the season, even as
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