All 8 Uses of
objective
in
No Easy Day
- All around me, my teammates were racing to their objectives.†
p. 173.9 *objectives = goals
- Guys quickly started to pile through and peel off toward their planned objectives.†
p. 217.6
- If the two teams made it all the way to the objective undetected, we would simply make our way down to the compound ourselves and help clear the target from all sides.†
p. 122.8
- Even with three fewer assaulters and no dog, we still had enough people to clear the objective.†
p. 124.9
- All in all, we cleared an objective with more than a dozen well-armed fighters without taking one casualty.†
p. 137.8
- We had never trained this much for a particular objective before in our lives, but it was important.†
p. 175.4
- As a team leader I'd need the two separate nets, but the reality was there wasn't going to be much traffic on the command net for this objective.†
p. 206.7
- In the old days, we'd storm the castle, throwing flash grenades as we cleared through an objective.†
p. 231.0
Definitions:
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(1)
(objective as in: our objective is to...) a goal (some end desired to be achieved)
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(2)
(objective as in: an objective viewpoint) fact-based without the influence of personal feelings or preferencesObjective is often contrasted with subjective--which means "influenced by personal belief, feelings, or preferences (rather than being based purely upon fact)."
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less common meanings of objective include:- In philosophy -- existing outside of the mind.
- In grammar -- the object of a verb or of certain prepositions.
- In optics -- the lens nearest the object being viewed