Definition of scattershot
: broadly and often randomly inclusive : shotgun scattershot advice scattershot planning
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USA TODAY Friday’s press conference only worsened this wound with its scattershot objective.
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Discovery Interactive, for instance, has sometimes worked in a scattershot manner, putting many resources behind diverse products.
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First Known Use of scattershot
1951
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