success

CEFRA1

/səkˈsɛs/

noun

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01
noun
The achievement of a desired goal or result.
02
noun
Extra detail
Financial profitability.

Examples

I'm sure your efforts will result in success.
The company has achieved considerable success in this market.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 1

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noun

Extra meanings

One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
The achievement of one's aim or goal.
The fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame.

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In context

I'm certain of your success.
Don't let success go to your head.
His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.

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Republicans are launching a new nonprofit group to highlight the legislative successes of its vulnerable incumbents with a $2 million advertising blitz touting the work of five vulnerable GOP senators to protect Medicare.
2015 May 12, Alexandra Jaffe, “First on CNN: New Rove-linked group spends $2M to boost GOP incumbents”, in CNN
Actually there was recently a talented young female bassoonist who gave up a promising career on that sturdy instrument, not to do something more feminine but to take up bullfighting. This is Patricia Hayes of San Angelo, Texas, who has had spectacular success in the arenas of Mexico and Portugal. Unfortunately she is not America's only matadoress.
1956 December 24, Cornelia Otis Skinner, “Women are misguided: They are still waging a shrill, ridiculous war over the dead issue of feminism”, in Life, volume 41, number 26, page 75
Instead Nokia decided better to stick with what they knew worked - good, solid, reliable mobile phones of the kind that had brought them success until then.
2013 September 24, Noreena Hertz, “Noreena Hertz: Don’t get stuck in your own success”, in CNN
There have been other drugs since reticulose that I became aware of the successes of, some even able to claim "cure," even turning people from HIV-positive to negative.
1998, Gavin Dillard, In the Flesh: Undressing for Success, page 141
There have been some surprising successes, though - the LTM's [London Transport Museum's] online gift shop is currently selling 75% more products during lockdown than it was in the same period last year.
2020 June 3, Sam Mullins OBE discusses with Stefanie Foster, “LTM: a new chapter begins at 40”, in Rail, page 53

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Origin

noun

Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.

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Years of effort finally resulted in the blank— they had dreamed of.

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noun

Years of effort finally resulted in the blank they had dreamed of.