hit list
noun
: a list of persons or programs to be opposed or eliminated
broadly
: a list of those targeted for special attention or treatment
Examples of hit list in a Sentence
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Beer and wine are also on the climate change hit list.
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Mike Hoffmann, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
In December 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray and at least 11 other senior U.S. officials were put on an online hit list targeting U.S. government officials who publicly backed the integrity of the 2020 election results.
—Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848–1849
by Christopher Clark
Noah Feldman
The Court’s Conservative Constitutional Revolution
The bloc of conservative justices on the Supreme Court have dismantled many of the legal precedents on their hit list.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 14 Sep. 2023
Gutiérrez Soto fled across the border into Texas with his then-teenage son soon after their home was ransacked by soldiers and he was told by a confidential source that his name appeared on a hit list of military targets.
—Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
And in some of the darker corners of the web on some obscure fringe sites, there have been some threats and talks about the names as a hit list and basically threats potentially against these jurors.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
With only one bird left on their hit list, the two flew to Nebraska in early May to chase down a Merriam’s.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 June 2023
And that’s it: my personal hit list of the best bits of Pitti.
—Tom Stubbs, Vogue, 13 June 2023
The material was long on environmentalists' hit lists for dispersing widely across the landscape and for being notoriously difficult to recycle.
—Brian Clark Howard, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2023
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Mike Hoffmann, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2023
In December 2020, FBI Director Christopher Wray and at least 11 other senior U.S. officials were put on an online hit list targeting U.S. government officials who publicly backed the integrity of the 2020 election results.
—Bruce Hoffman and Jacob Ware, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2023
Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848–1849
by Christopher Clark
Noah Feldman
The Court’s Conservative Constitutional Revolution
The bloc of conservative justices on the Supreme Court have dismantled many of the legal precedents on their hit list.
—Jennifer Wilson, The New York Review of Books, 14 Sep. 2023
Gutiérrez Soto fled across the border into Texas with his then-teenage son soon after their home was ransacked by soldiers and he was told by a confidential source that his name appeared on a hit list of military targets.
—Nick Miroff, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2023
And in some of the darker corners of the web on some obscure fringe sites, there have been some threats and talks about the names as a hit list and basically threats potentially against these jurors.
—Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2023
With only one bird left on their hit list, the two flew to Nebraska in early May to chase down a Merriam’s.
—Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 29 June 2023
And that’s it: my personal hit list of the best bits of Pitti.
—Tom Stubbs, Vogue, 13 June 2023
The material was long on environmentalists' hit lists for dispersing widely across the landscape and for being notoriously difficult to recycle.
—Brian Clark Howard, Good Housekeeping, 22 Mar. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1972, in the meaning defined above
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“Hit list.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20list. Accessed 3 Dec. 2023.
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