Definitions for soft target
soft tar·get

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1. soft targetnoun

   An undefended civilian target attacked by an army, military group or terrorists.

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1. Soft target

   Soft target is a military term referring to unarmored/undefended targets needing to be destroyed. For example, a soft target would be an automobile, a house, or assembly of people while a hard target could be a main battle tank or a well defended installation. This can also be applied to apparent readiness. A person who varies their schedule or avoids patterns, has solid looking security measures on their home, or other forms of visible readiness would not be a soft target. A soft target for surveillance would have little variance in travel patterns and a visibly low state of situational awareness.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of soft target in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of soft target in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of soft target in a Sentence

1. Tuuli Robinson:

   It is a very unique measure, you know. It is in response to very unique and very violent incidents that have happened nationwide. All schools are having to take measures such as ensuring that there are safe corners, blinds in your classroom doors, that the lockdown procedures are in place. But we have seen that even with those measures in place, things happen, i actually think that the arming of the teachers is not going to create these dramatic gunfights in schools, it is going to create a deterrent. The schools are not going to be a soft target and they are not going to be attractive.

2. Abdul Moqim Abdulrahimzai:

   These remote outposts did not contribute to security and were setting ducks, a soft target for the Taliban to pick on them, ...Those areas will not be abandoned but will remain under our close surveillance and we will respond to security threats when needed.

3. Seth Jones:

   What's most likely is not an attack against a U.S. government official like the President, but an attack that happens while the President is there, security for the president is likely to be very significant and that means what Al-Shabaab is likely to do, based on what it has done very recently, is go for a soft target.

4. William Nault:

   I would assess that as getting worse over the last year instead of better, that threat would be against a soft target meaning an industry ship passing or going in and out of ... the Red Sea towards the eastern end of Yemen.

5. Lawrence Yahn:

   It could happen anywhere here in the streets, it's not just limited to the bars. The whole town is like a soft target.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Soft_Target
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=soft target