hit list
/ˈhɪt ˌlɪst/ n [C]Definition
› a list of people, groups, or organizations that someone, esp. in politics, intends to take unpleasant action against: He’s on the president’s hit list because he helped defeat the tax bill.
(Definition of hit list n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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