noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a deserved win/victory/success etc
▪ Larsson’s goal gave Celtic a deserved victory.
a financial success (=something that makes a profit)
▪ It was a wonderful film, but not exactly a financial success.
a (huge) box office hit/success
a huge success/disappointment etc
▪ The play was a huge success.
an unqualified success
▪ The experiment had not been an unqualified success.
brilliant success
▪ The project was a brilliant success.
chart success
▪ It looks like they are set for chart success.
confident of success
▪ The company is confident of success.
critical success (=critics said it was good)
▪ Her first play was a critical success.
emulate...success
▪ He hoped to emulate the success of Wilder.
hailed a success
▪ The new service has been hailed a success.
judge sth a success/failure (=consider it to be a success/failure)
▪ The concert was judged a success.
limited success
▪ So far, the education reforms have had only limited success.
meet with success/failure (=succeed or fail)
▪ Our attempts at negotiation finally met with some success.
modest success
▪ The new service proved a modest success.
notable achievement/success/victory
phenomenal success
▪ the phenomenal success of computer games in recent years
repeat...success (=achieve the same good result)
▪ The team are hoping to repeat their success of last season.
runaway success
▪ The film was a runaway success.
scored...success
▪ Her new book has scored a spectacular success.
signal achievement/success/failure etc
▪ The university has done me the signal honour of making me an Honorary Fellow.
sweet smell of success
▪ the sweet smell of success
the success/failure rate
▪ The success rate is still extremely low.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
▪ Dallas was a big success in his debut season with the Warriors and was a frequent try-scorer.
▪ Don Rickles can find irony even in one of his biggest successes.
▪ Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent.
▪ The ratings were extraordinary, and the show was a bigger success than even he had dreamed.
▪ The two biggest success stories in the biotech industry, Amgen and Genentech, both do most of their manufacturing in California.
▪ For example, television has probably been the biggest consumer electronics success of all time.
▪ Gump had integrity, always tried to do what was right, and was a big success in several endeavors.
commercial
▪ Images and photographs for both these magazines are the key to their commercial success.
▪ Constantly searching for commercial success, Harris has an unfortunate reputation as a jazzman who plays for applause.
▪ From its first operation in the 1920s, the computer only reached commercial feasibility and success in 1964.
▪ Traditional values and old-fashioned rules of journalism have been thrown overboard in the competitive race for audiences and commercial success.
▪ Share My Lettuce was much more of a commercial success than it was a critical triumph.
▪ Nor was the Macintosh a great commercial success initially.
▪ On these pages we review some of the recent commercial successes which combine to form the foundation of our new business.
▪ For a variety of reasons, Bob never found commercial success.
considerable
▪ Printed on thin single sheets, suitable for enclosing in an envelope, they were a considerable success.
▪ Recent studies of intermittent turbulence within chaotic systems are being applied to process control with considerable success.
▪ In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering, both in terms of money and also in prestige.
▪ I understand he has already been schooled over fences with considerable success.
▪ Unquestionably, the physical measures and publicity have resulted in considerable success in achieving this most crucial aim of environmental traffic management.
▪ Fully-digested sewage sludge is also used, with considerable success.
▪ From the party point of view, Law's leadership had been a considerable success.
▪ The sequence of what you say makes a considerable difference to success.
critical
▪ Merchant's companies do not seem to distinguish between key result areas and critical success factors.
▪ And, when the time for your evaluation arrives, make sure that these critical successes are documented in writing.
▪ Its management decided to start from first principles by developing critical success factors.
▪ And we believe passionately that increased equity is not only right and just, but critical to our success as a nation.
▪ Yet private investment, a critical test of success, is only trickling in.
▪ The River was an enormous and immediate popular and critical success.
▪ The information must be matched to the business's objectives and critical success factors.
▪ John and Bob developed a series of practices that were critical to their success.
early
▪ Molyneux built on Richmond's earlier successes and became a figure of public renown.
▪ It was to determine the most important characteristic that accounted for their early success.
▪ Fitzgerald and Hemingway craved early success, as if they knew time was short.
▪ The best qualities helped them soar and gain early success, but their worst qualities caused them to fail equally rapidly.
▪ Thus, Reagan's early successes can be variously accounted for.
▪ Then it was the event I had the earliest success in.
▪ This was on the strength of early successes in the property business.
▪ After his early success, teams began pitching him tougher.
economic
▪ In a country whose people so crave economic success, failure to produce it is bound to produce negativism.
▪ The link between education and economic success has grown more and more important over the past thirty years.
▪ Mr Museveni would have been unable to stay in power were it not for the economic success unfolding around him.
▪ In a society that valued upward mobility, formal education became a gateway to economic and social success.
▪ What is the point of economic success ifit is matched by growing unhappiness?
▪ This, indeed, was the dark side of an economic success which in other respects was undeniably energetic and spectacular.
▪ The apparent social harmony of the mid-century could be attributed to Britain's economic success in these years.
▪ Murfreesboro has enjoyed economic success in recent years.
financial
▪ Independent survival is achieved in the financial markets through success in competitive markets.
▪ What we worship these days is financial success, as though it automatically confers high principles and admirable character.
▪ The aim of business strategies is competitive success for financial success.
▪ There is no quick or easy way to financial security or success.
▪ The editorial excellence of their newspaper is founded on its financial success - and this is not assured.
▪ He has already achieved a high measure of financial success.
▪ Perhaps the school was not the financial success that everyone seemed to think.
▪ She was obsessed with getting her barrel back; it was, she felt, the key to financial success.
great
▪ Comments: A most undemanding and very hardy plant, which can be grown by the absolute beginner with great success.
▪ He has done it badly and without great success.
▪ Many of the lords are jealous of your great success against Blefuscu, and Flimnap still hates you.
▪ In Camp Montgomery he had his first great success.
▪ The event was a great success and there were 120 entrants from throughout the Northern region.
▪ He attempted once or twice to speak, but with no great success.
▪ This is a small, chatty volume of the kind that White has turned out in recent years with great success.
▪ In all too many companies, reengineering has been not only a great success, but also a great failure.
huge
▪ The first transcontinental railroad, we were taught to believe, was a huge government success.
▪ She felt sure the campaign would be a huge success.
▪ The suppers became a huge success.
▪ No other hiccups were reported, however, and the promotion was voted a huge success.
▪ But to Loi the meal was a huge success.
▪ Most publishers will tell you that huge success can be ruinous to a writer's talents.
▪ At the dinner parties, however, he was a huge success.
key
▪ It is the key to the success of many effective organizations who have found that it is a sound long term investment.
▪ As purpose is instilled and progress achieved, that will build pride and professionalism, which also are key ingredients of success.
▪ All agreed that the tactical decision on whether to go east or west at Cape Finisterre had been the key to success.
▪ The key to success in heading abroad is getting these first planning basics right.
▪ As with all learning, motivation is the key to success.
▪ Only those who buy records hold the key to success.
▪ It's you who holds the key, literally, the key to success on the court.
major
▪ Is he also aware that human skills are the major determinant of success or failure?
▪ It takes too long to get to any major success....
▪ The Magazine has makings of major success April 28 saw the spectacular arrival of Sainsbury's the Magazine.
▪ Their first major success came with Jerry Butler.
▪ They were celebrating, rightly as foreign observers believed, a major success story.
▪ At the Cosford Games I won the 60 metres, my first major senior success above county level.
▪ The tiny athlete believes her rare lapse in Tokyo was just a temporary blip in a career of major championship success.
▪ Having played his last major card without success, de Gaulle's strategy seemed to lose coherence.
modest
▪ This modest success was bought at the expense of mounting employee grievances.
▪ She had some modest successes behind her with short stories.
▪ But the second attempt was a modest success.
▪ These reflect a relatively late period of modest success for the town.
▪ However, there were also some modest but significant successes.
▪ I have had some modest success in this regard, and pass on here some tips I have used.
▪ Brian himself is modest about his success.
notable
▪ Two notable and deserving successes cited by her in no way disqualify the principle of special needs.
▪ Congress has tried to find a site to bury high-level nuclear wastes for decades, with a notable lack of success.
▪ However, Richard Williams and his team achieved notable success in survey support services to major pipeline construction work in the Gulf.
▪ Mourvedre, on the other hand, has been a notable success.
▪ Even President Obasanjo's critics acknowledge that in the past nine months he has achieved some notable successes.
▪ Unkind historians today doubt if they really scored a notable success.
▪ The lunches, which feature good food, wine and wit, have been a notable success since their inception in 1991.
▪ Inevitably this led to uncertainties and inconclusive results, with some notable successes and failures.
reproductive
▪ Biased estimates of variation in reproductive success may also cause the effects of particular phenotypic traits on reproductive success to be overestimated.
▪ Simply put, anything that increases reproductive success will spread at the expense of anything that does not-even if it threatens survival.
▪ There are several reasons why variation in daily reproductive success may not reflect variation in either seasonal or lifetime success.
▪ Altman focused on females in the troop, because it is easier to monitor their reproductive success reliably than that of males.
▪ Detailed life-history studies of this highly dimorphic animal reveal that the reproductive success of large males is much higher than small males.
▪ In real life, the criterion for selection is always short-term, either simple survival or, more generally, reproductive success.
▪ Differential reproductive success also occurs in other ways, however.
▪ This seasonal decline in reproductive success is yet another factor in the pied flycatcher's bigamous mating system.
■ NOUN
rate
▪ He was particularly pleased with the 25 percent success rate of the initial sessions at Coalport, which started in November.
▪ And, according to Smith, a success rate of more than 90 percent is attainable in simple, uncomplicated cases.
▪ This figure is comparable with the success rate in our peptic stricture patients as well as in several other reports.
▪ Besides, the message will seem like criticism, and therefore your success rate will probably be low.
▪ The procedure can be done under local anaesthetic and has a success rate of over 90 percent.
▪ That is an astounding success rate.
▪ So far the success rate was encouraging.
▪ A 50-percent success rate would be wonderful.
story
▪ As he said, inward investment is one of the great success stories of the last decade.
▪ Her business has become so famous that she felt its success story merited a corner display in her new museum.
▪ However, success stories in themselves are not unusual and most certainly part of any teaching environment.
▪ The success stories I will provide contain the proof of that.
▪ Hailed as a success story for the planners, for some this new town will remain an old joke.
▪ Or consider that some of the nations long heralded as family planning success stories have faltered on the road to re-placement fertility.
▪ What a pity that the Opposition never tell us any success stories.
▪ Despite the challenges, the nonprofit center and its staff have logged numerous success stories, said Glasser.
■ VERB
achieve
▪ Despite our analysis, most of our engineers felt that they were achieving professional success and personal satisfaction.
▪ You will feel more confident at the interview because you have already achieved success.
▪ This is another attractive species, but extra care is needed to achieve success.
▪ To achieve electoral success, pragmatic parties might shift their position or expand the range of viewpoints they encompass.
▪ Unlike many others, he achieved success in that respect as well through his work as a writer.
▪ You are thus delegating the right to achieve failure as well as success.
▪ Today, you need a coordinated effort to help you achieve success.
depend
▪ Its success depends largely on its proportions to the accompanying curtains and surroundings.
▪ It was a risk for Invisible Theatre to choose a work whose success depends on the skill of teenaged actors.
▪ Upon its success might depend the entire future of the company.
▪ The success of these programs depends on a reliable handpump.
▪ The success of such programmes depends heavily on how much part their recipients have in their design and execution.
▪ Women have rarely had an incentive to seek success of that kind, for their reproductive success depended on other things.
▪ A reputation for being exclusive is not very useful in a market where success depends on recruiting large numbers.
▪ Saving and investing success depend on time.
enjoy
▪ In between Kylie had enjoyed success in a few other minor television roles.
▪ It scared off other pianists until the late 1920s, when Horowitz began to enjoy great success with it.
▪ This again, though enjoying some success, could not be rated foolproof.
▪ It seemed remarkable that two men who enjoyed so much success and influence would make such a decision.
▪ Commitment to quality has enabled Guinness to enjoy success for over 230 years.
▪ In the spring of 1949, Truman enjoyed success after success.
▪ In the past Ferrari have enjoyed short-lived success.
▪ Workers that have developed unique skills that they parlay into jobs or their own businesses have enjoyed more success.
ensure
▪ It was the reason he had poured so much effort, care and attention into ensuring the joke's success.
▪ Planning for quality assurance needs and making appropriate changes will ensure the success of the profession and quality care for consumers.
▪ For the first time, schools must ensure the educational success of all students.
▪ You also must give them resources and reinforcement just in time to ensure their success.
▪ The weight of the church of Canterbury was behind Wihtred and it may have been this which ensured his success.
▪ It helps ensure success for novice users.
▪ As a general rule, the archbishop had sufficient political leverage to ensure success for his own monks in these disputes.
▪ Where the team process excels is in ensuring the candidates' success through the entire work group entry process.
follow
▪ Just as failure often follows failure, success breeds success.
▪ The night prevented them from following up their success.
▪ The North-East Railside Revival project follows the success of a £6m upgrading of the Darlington line which won several environmental awards.
▪ As success follows on success, the beliefs and fears at the core of high performance are continually validated.
▪ A new band's first album ideally follows some success with a single.
▪ Interest in plant derived antiulcer drugs declined following the success of synthetic antihistamine drugs in the 1970s.
judge
▪ Regardless of technical hitches Pathfinders in Space was judged a great success, leading to a second series being commissioned in 1960.
▪ Watch the changes in their management philosophies to judge their future success.
▪ The scheme was judged to be a success and extended to all secondary schools in April 1986.
▪ He judges success by how effectively human needs are reconciled with the needs of the ecosystem.
▪ Local Management of Schools will be judged a success if it has been up and running reasonably well since 1 April 1990.
▪ We judge the success of a contract by the volume of trades conducted in it.
▪ If the New Deal is judged by its economic success alone, then the verdict must be a mixed one.
▪ They may also be of limited use when trying to judge the success of many plans.
limit
▪ Other attempts to restrict preferences of voters seem equally to have had limited success.
▪ Raju had been valiantly trying to translate what was said with limited success.
▪ However, Mosley only had limited success in this endeavour.
▪ Some paradigms have achieved limited success in some areas; others do better in yet other areas.
▪ Plain abdominal films have limited success in identifying drug packages, with false negative rates of 1.2% to 33%.
▪ But their success in this venture was limited by their success in another.
▪ Black and Hispanic leaders will recognize the limited success to be achieved by registration of potential voters.
▪ It is a right-wing movement from Alberta that is having only very limited success catching on east of the prairies.
meet
▪ Much thought is required to smooth the path if this scheme hopes to meet with success.
▪ But he met with little success.
▪ Trapping is a method which meets with limited success and involves feeding within a specialised wire cage for a period of time.
▪ I was involved, and I was meeting with success.
▪ Neither half of that balancing act has yet met with success.
▪ So far, his efforts to set up a maintenance fund for Bemersyde have met with limited success.
▪ Meanwhile, Jeffries and black leaders met with no success when they tried to subdue the rioters.
prove
▪ The scheme, which also includes £60 per goal, was only introduced this season and it certainly has proved a success.
▪ At $ 3. 99, a weekday all-you-can-eat lunch buffet proved a resounding success.
▪ In the course of a long lifetime, his bold concept was proved an amazing success.
▪ Their experimental ironclad had proved a great success.
▪ It is proving an amazing success.
▪ There was no doubt that Harry's twenty-first celebration was proving a phenomenal success.
▪ By 1880 there were about a thousand hotels in the scheme which proved a resounding success.
▪ All of which explains why the Domaine has proved such a success.
repeat
▪ It serves them right for playing a game in which even the winners become losers if they try to repeat their success.
▪ Their goal is to repeat the success of last year, when Kennedy joined then-Sen.
▪ He had hoped to repeat his successes of 1985 and 1987, but could not contain the accurate drawing skills of King.
▪ Most of his additions, however, repeated the success of breakthroughs.
▪ Brace, can he repeat the success he enjoyed in Berlin?
▪ He is unable to repeat his success. all possible combinations are not tried in a controlled manner.
▪ Unfortunately he hadn't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained, and would do so until he left the force.
▪ This week, she spoke about her plans to repeat her successes at Boston-based Houghton.
score
▪ It is good therefore to be able to record that at least one such effort scored a stunning success.
▪ But restoration ecology is pointless if it merely leads to a relapse into high-risk behavior the moment it scores some initial success.
▪ Labour scored its biggest successes in London, where it gained a dozen seats on an above-average swing of 3.4 percent.
▪ Unkind historians today doubt if they really scored a notable success.
▪ Extreme right-wing parties scored more pronounced successes.
▪ In November 1991, the Jet project scored a major success in its search for a waste free nuclear power.
▪ A year or so later his professional technique scored another success.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a patina of wealth/success etc
be a howling success
be a roaring success
▪ As this is the framework, the issue will be a roaring success.
▪ The final week of Hamlet was a roaring success.
be at the height of your success/fame/powers etc
▪ By the 1860's, when he was at the height of his fame, tragedy struck as he took increasingly to drink.
▪ However, in 1985 he was at the height of his fame as a novelist.
▪ Outwardly, the Cowboys appear to be at the height of their powers.
be cheated of victory/success etc
be/become a victim of its own success
▪ The helpline is a victim of its own success with so many people calling that no one can get through.
▪ Moreover, to a great extent the health service is a victim of its own success.
flushed with success/excitement/pleasure etc
▪ His face was flushed with excitement when they came.
▪ She is gesturing and smiling, her cheeks flushed with pleasure that there is so much to offer.
▪ The two women flanking her were flushed with pleasure and excitement.
nothing succeeds like success
▪ Initially nothing succeeds like success: but eventually success exceeds itself, and decline and despondency set in.
passport to success/health/romance etc
▪ Early on he learned - the hard way - that it was the passport to success.
▪ Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
▪ The Union Jack will be our passport to romance.
▪ We live in an increasingly competitive world where good qualifications are a passport to success.
resounding success/victory/defeat etc
▪ At $ 3. 99, a weekday all-you-can-eat lunch buffet proved a resounding success.
▪ His foray into biography is also a resounding success.
▪ It was his most resounding defeat in terms of lengths.
▪ On the one hand, so many victories; on the other, resounding defeat at Trafalgar in 1805.
▪ On the other hand, others have described the issue as a resounding success as all the shares were sold.
▪ That resounding success, moreover, was followed by others.
▪ The organisers claimed the conference was a resounding success.
▪ The outcome - a resounding victory for the home team, not that they appeared particularly surprised.
taste success/freedom/victory etc
▪ And Long has yet to taste victory in this tournament, unlike his half-back partner Martyn.
▪ Others decided to taste freedom in other fields of social activity: speculation on the black market, opening businesses etc.
▪ They just wanted to taste victory after all that losing.
ticket to success/fame/stardom etc
▪ All too often large advances can seem like a ticket to stardom.
vote sth a success/the best etc
▪ But they will be in costume, and all party goers will have a chance to vote on the best disguise.
▪ They also voted the Cappuccino the best sub-£20,000 sports car in the show.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Success in business depends on hard work, determination, and good ideas.
▪ After her recent successes in Tokyo and New York, Bjork has returned to perform in England.
▪ Auster was surprised at the success of his latest novel.
▪ Critics have been astonished at the film's success.
▪ Many first-class students go on to have even greater success.
▪ The concert was a great success.
▪ The president believed that his approach was the only one with any chance of success.
▪ The unprecedented success of Mitchell's work inspired a generation of writers.
▪ their fourth success in a row
▪ With a such a strong team, France are heading for certain success.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even after Food and Drug Administration approval, success is far from certain.
▪ In his diaries he looks forward to future success, but it was his artistic success that he sought before financial security.
▪ It was the reason he had poured so much effort, care and attention into ensuring the joke's success.
▪ Of course, I knew my success would cause resentment.
▪ The book was an immediate success.
▪ These approaches produced successes, and the subfield of expert systems became commercially viable.
▪ This year's children's party - to which parents were also invited - was a great success.