objective point

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noun

military another term for objective (def. 8)

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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Words nearby objective point

objective correlative, objective danger, objective genitive, objective idealism, objectively, objective point, objective prism, objective relativism, objective spirit, objective test, objectivism

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How to use objective point in a sentence

This plan was adopted and we left London about noon, with Coventry, nearly one hundred miles away, as our objective point.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car|Thomas D. Murphy
The second company were to proceed by Millersville and Jamestown, with the same objective point in view.
A Lieutenant at Eighteen|Oliver Optic
The dusk was rapidly falling and we had yet some leagues to my objective-point.
Mexico|Charles Reginald Enock
By break of day our force was again in motion towards its objective point, now known to be Lucknow.
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army|Charles Alexander Gordon

His objective point was the Island of Michilimackinac (Mackinaw), which had been captured by the enemy early in the war.
The Naval History of the United States|Willis J. Abbot.