¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goalposts
1. goalpost [n] - See also: goalpost
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goalposts
Literary usage of Goalposts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. World Energy Outlook 2004 by Publishing Oecd Publishing, Iea, International Energy Agency (2004)
"A separate index is created for each dimension, using the actual maximum and
minimum values (known as "goalposts") for the developing countries covered. ..."
2. The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration by Xolela MacPherson Mangcu (2007)
"He was fired because, in an essay called 'The Field and Function of the Negro
College', Du Bois argued that since the goalposts of the Civil Rights movement ..."
3. Testing North Korea: The Next Stage in U.S. and Rok Policy by Morton I. Abramowitz, James T. Laney (2001)
"In addition, I caution against our American tendency to move the goalposts for
normalization of relations with the DPRK. We were the originators of the idea ..."
4. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"That was why the fellows seemed to him smaller and farther away and the goalposts
so thin and far and the soft grey sky so high up. ..."
5. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"That was why the fellows seemed to him smaller and farther away and the goalposts
so thin and far and the soft grey sky so high up. ..."
6. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... and from within the prescribed 'striking circle' between the goalposts and
under the cross-bar. The ball may be caught and immediately dropped, ..."
Other Resources:
