achieve
21achieve — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. accomplish, attain, reach. See completion. Ant., fail. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To succeed in carrying out] Syn. complete, end, terminate, conclude, finish, finish up, finish off, do, perform,… …
22achieve — a|chieve W1S1 [əˈtʃi:v] v [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: achever, from chief end, head ] 1.) [T] to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard ▪ Frances achieved very good exam results. ▪ Wilson has… …
23achieve — [14] Achieve is related to chief. It comes from Old French achever ‘bring to an end’, or literally ‘bring to a head’, which was based on the phrase a chief ‘to a head’ (chief derives ultimately from Latin caput ‘head’). The heraldic meaning of… …
24achieve — , achievement To achieve is to accomplish; to perform with success; to attain with effort or despite difficulty. Achievement is either the act of accomplishing or the thing accomplished. Achievement is especially the successful performance… …
25achieve — verb the legal resources are inadequate to achieve our public health objectives Syn: attain, reach, arrive at; realize, bring off/about, pull off, accomplish, carry off/out/through, fulfill, execute, perform, engineer, conclude, complete, finish …
26achieve*/*/*/ — [əˈtʃiːv] verb 1) [T] to succeed in doing or having something We have achieved what we set out to do.[/ex] Most of the students achieved high test scores.[/ex] 2) [I] to be successful and do things that people admire Many managers are driven by a …
27achieve — /ə tʃi:v/ verb to succeed in doing something, to do something successfully ● The company has achieved great success in the Far East. ● We achieved all our objectives in 2001. ▪▪▪ ‘…the company expects to move to profits of FFr 2m next year and… …
28achieve — [14] Achieve is related to chief. It comes from Old French achever ‘bring to an end’, or literally ‘bring to a head’, which was based on the phrase a chief ‘to a head’ (chief derives ultimately from Latin caput ‘head’). The heraldic meaning of… …
29achieve by continued effort — index earn Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
30achieve liberty — index escape Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
