0 a person or thing that is without protection and easily attacked: --
Thor is a sitting target.
If it had been a sitting target for taxation reductions, the immunity of the sale of its houses and coastline would be far less than it is at present.
The possibility of non-mountable barriers would make it that much easier for wrong-doers to know that there was a sitting target on certain days of the week.
The common agricultural policy is a sitting target for that kind of thing.
The directors of a company would become something of a sitting target for actions brought by a whole range of litigants.
The man in uniform is a sitting target; he has no idea who his enemy is.
Some experts take the view that every ship which is on the surface today is a sitting target.
Any dog on a lead is a sitting target for another dog.