Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

move the goal posts

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.45 in modern English

Syllables: move the -goal -posts
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of move the goalposts.

Example Sentences

"Sooner or later we have to have rules, and we have to know that they are not going to change, for people to have business plans developed and so that they can go out and raise capital and stick with their business model. But if there is this constant uncertainty that when the Commission changes, or when they have another rule tha they are going to move the goal posts again, nobody is going to want to have anything to do with this field."

Inflected Forms

moves the goal posts (present, singular) moving the goal posts (participle, present) moved the goal posts (participle, past) moved the goal posts (past)

Questions

What does move the goal posts mean?: Alternative form of move the goalposts.

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