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shotgun approach — If you use a shotgun approach, you cover a wide range in a non selective, haphazard and inefficient manner. Identifying a specific segment of the market as our target will be more effective than a shotgun approach … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
shotgun approach — A marketing campaign without a specific target audience/goal. ► “But many analysts remain skeptical about its [Rubbermaid’s] vaunted growth plans, including doubling to 30% its foreign sales as a percent of total sales by 1998. . . .‘It’s an… … American business jargon
shotgun — /shot gun /, n., adj., v., shotgunned, shotgunning. n. 1. a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals. 2. Football. an offensive formation, designed primarily… … Universalium
shotgun — 1. mod. broad; general. □ It was a shotgun attempt to include everyone. □ A shotgun approach to a problem like this is useless. You must get specific. 2. exclam. <a phrase called out by someone who claims the privilege of riding in a car’s… … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
shotgun — shot•gun [[t]ˈʃɒtˌgʌn[/t]] n. adj. v. gunned, gun•ning 1) a smoothbore gun for firing small shot to kill birds and small quadrupeds, though often used with buckshot to kill larger animals 2) spo cvs a football passing formation in which the… … From formal English to slang
Shotgun argumentation — Explanation Also known as rapid fire tactic, shotgun tactic, shotgun approach, Shotgun argumentation is an informal logical fallacy. It is exemplified when a person posts a wall of text , as in a long and often unformalized text often with no or… … Wikipedia
Shotgun surgery — is an antipattern in software development and occurs where a developer adds features to an application codebase which span a multiplicity of implementors or implementations in a single change. This is common practice in many programming scenarios … Wikipedia
Shotgun sequencing — In genetics, shotgun sequencing, also known as shotgun cloning, is a method used for sequencing long DNA strands. It is named by analogy with the rapidly expanding, quasi random firing pattern of a shotgun.Since the chain termination method of… … Wikipedia
Shotgun lipidomics — In lipidomics, the process of shotgun lipidomics (named by analogy with shotgun sequencing uses analytical chemistry to investigate the biological function, significance, and sequelae of alterations in lipids and protein constituents mediating… … Wikipedia
Shotgun sequencing — An approach used to decode a genome by shredding ( shotgunning ) it into smaller fragments of DNA which can then be individually sequenced. The sequences of these fragments are then ordered, based on overlaps in the genetic code, and finally… … Medical dictionary
