achievement 
achieve·ment (-mənt)
noun
- the act of achieving
- a thing achieved, esp. by skill, work, courage, etc.; feat
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achievement
n.
The act of reaching a goal
attainment, accomplishment, fulfillment, realization, actualization, effectuation, encompassment, execution; see also success 1.A creditable action completed
accomplishment, feat, exploit, contrivance, triumph, hit, success, realization, acquirement, creation, completion, consummation, masterwork, masterpiece, performance, deed, act, enactment, victory, conquest, chef d'oeuvre (French), tour de force, coup, attainment, rendition, action, stunt, feather in one's cap*.
Converse of object
- celebrate: We celebrate achievements; we share in the success of our colleagues.
- recognize: The awards recognize achievements in the project work of students taking Design & Technology at Advanced Level.
- raise: Particular attention will be given to strategies most likely to help raise achievement in the school.
- demonstrate: This document provides guidance on the minimum evidence required to demonstrate school achievement of national healthy school status.
- crown: It was then, and remains 40 years later, the party's crowning achievement.
- acknowledge: This award scheme has been set up to acknowledge these achievements.
Adjective modifier
- outstanding: The overall winner for the most outstanding achievement was the Magna Science Adventure Center at Rotherham.
- remarkable: For a first attempt the event was a remarkable achievement.
- tremendous: Organizing your own Relay for Life is a tremendous achievement.
- academic: Career: Willem's main academic achievement was to solve Einstein's field equations for an infinite rotating cylinder.
- educational: The Government Offices will be encouraging future bids aimed at raising levels of educational achievement.
- notable: On the field, the young crop of talent continued to make excellent progress, with notable achievements at all levels.
Modifies a noun
- award: Q What happens if our achievement award entry did not arrive before the closing date?
Noun used with modifier
- lifetime: Peter Pratt receiving the second ever Chairman's Award for a lifetime achievement in Psychiatric Pharmacy.
- sporting: On Friday 24th March, 11 talented sports people will be awarded a Hallmark Award in recognition of their sporting achievement.
- pupil: Target setting and external pressures for raising pupil achievement.
Possessives
- pupil: To improve pupils ' achievement and progress in games through developing high quality learning activities.
Preposition: of
- objective: Progress against achievement of the policy objectives is monitored by a Ministerial Advisory Board.
- goal: UNHCR is concerned, however, that the proposed restrictions on legal assistance would be contrary to the achievement of this goal.
- target: Achievement of the next target will require a further 1.5 million learners to achieve a first qualification by 2010.
Never let success hide its emptiness from you; achievement its nothingness; toil its desolation. Keep alivetheincentivetopushonfurther, that pain inthesoul that drives us beyond ourselves. Do not look back, and do not dream about the future either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward, your destiny are here and now.
Oh, Mr President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality.
Art very possibly ought to be the supreme achievement, the'accomplished', but there is the other satisfactory effectöthat of a man hurling himself at an indomitable chaos and yanking and hauling as much of it as possible into some sort of order (or beauty) aware of it both as chaos and as potential.
There isnothing like a rainof bombstostart onetrying to assess one's own achievement.
The present is anage of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world isgrowing old.We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Artöthe one achievement of Man which has made the long trip from all fours seem well advised.
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert people. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice.
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