targetable

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adjective

That can be targeted (directed towards a target).

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivetargetable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableusuallyThat can be targeted (directed towards a target).

    Since the Soviet Union is lagging far behind the U.S. in multiple independently targetable missiles which are capable of attacking many strategic targets of the opposite side,[…]

    1974, Hsinhua Weekly
  2. not comparableetcThat can be targeted; i.e., that can be made into a target (of attack, etc).

    Do Islamic juridical discourses stress the distinction between the targetable soldiers at Fort Hood and the nontargetable civilians of London, Madrid, and New York?

    2011 December 5, A. Afsaruddin, Islam, the State, and Political Authority: Medieval Issues and Modern Concerns, Springer, →ISBN
    1 more example

    ... there are many legally targetable soldiers, for example, who are not actually engaging in harm. Consider the problem of the sleeping soldier. Just who are the “innocent” in bellum justum?

    2016 August 25, David M. Barnes, The Ethics of Military Privatization: The US Armed Contractor Phenomenon, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 124

Origin

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Chicago

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