noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sense of achievement/satisfaction (=a feeling that you have achieved something good)
▪ Even a small success gives a sense of achievement.
academic achievements
▪ Girls’ academic achievements are at least as good as boys’.
crowning achievement
▪ his crowning achievement
notable achievement/success/victory
remarkable feat/achievement/accomplishment
▪ It’s a remarkable achievement for the company.
signal achievement/success/failure etc
▪ The university has done me the signal honour of making me an Honorary Fellow.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
academic
▪ Mr. Sayeed Does my hon. Friend agree that assessing ability only in terms of academic achievement sells young people short?
▪ The students were chosen because of their strong leadership potential, academic achievement and involvement in extracurricular activities.
▪ Core skills are those which are basic to all vocational and academic achievement.
▪ Does divorce interfere with academic achievement?
▪ Evidence of recent academic achievement is normally required.
▪ Likewise, early reading problems and low scores on achievement tests are often used as an indicator of anticipated weak academic achievement.
▪ A prevailing sense of relief and a chance for everyone to forge a career non-reliant on academic achievement.
▪ The extent to which school-to-work can raise academic achievement is less clear.
artistic
▪ During all this time, however, his artistic achievement continued in private.
▪ Each nominee received a certificate from academy president Arthur Hiller in recognition of his or her artistic achievements.
▪ National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements.
▪ We have assumed that stylistics investigates the relation between the writer's artistic achievement, and how it is achieved through language.
▪ I suspect they award points for skill in flying and for artistic achievement too!
considerable
▪ Nevertheless, they represent a considerable achievement by all the member states.
▪ They represent a considerable achievement on the part of the lesbian and gay trade union groups.
▪ If Barak can contain the potential for these stresses and strains to muddy his agenda, that will be a considerable achievement.
▪ They had worked hard in pursuing their education and had considerable achievements to their credit.
▪ Now it's up to you Only a few years ago it was a considerable achievement to fly a model helicopter at all.
educational
▪ There is also increased awareness that educational achievements are closely connected to national cultures and traditions.
▪ The aim is to relate their educational achievements to their experiences at school and to their parents' help at home.
▪ And does include a question about their educational achievement?
▪ Literacy rates, a good indicator of educational achievement, have improved very considerably during the century.
▪ Roberts goes on to link educational achievement with the level of economic development of the region of out-migration.
▪ Mr McGuinness argues that the present system breeds inequality and produces a long tail of educational under-achievement.
▪ The borough is struggling to raise its low levels of educational achievement.
extraordinary
▪ And it was done with an extraordinary vault of achievement.
▪ There have been attempts to depict this extraordinary achievement as a form of musical consumerism.
▪ His extraordinary achievements of discovery, surveying and collecting were not acknowledged in his lifetime.
▪ Technically it is an extraordinary achievement.
▪ The Jubilee 2000 campaign, which officially ended last week, has been an extraordinary achievement.
fine
▪ Experts consider his finest achievement to be the West Pier, with its elegant cast-iron kiosks, railings, and windscreens.
▪ Nor do the trophies alone mark their finest achievements.
▪ In proportional terms, this is itself a fine achievement.
▪ That was an extraordinarily fine achievement in such a short space of time.
▪ Bloomsbury House was Hailey's finest achievement.
▪ Getting it right is a fine achievement that those who have managed it should be proud of.
▪ All art and all the finest achievements of mankind have sprung from emotion.
great
▪ In the May 1997 election he led the Liberal Democrats to their greatest electoral achievement since 1929.
▪ It has produced great achievements but also notable waste.
▪ To get to this exciting stage is a great achievement.
▪ In some ways this is the administration's greatest achievement.
▪ But they left largely unchallenged the Bolshevik view of October 1917 itself as the greatest achievement of the world revolutionary movement.
▪ Is not this a most commendable goal-a great achievement?
▪ The Labyrinth at Knossos is generally recognized to have been one of the greatest architectural achievements of the ancient world.
▪ The greatest achievements were obtained in the fight against communicable disease.
high
▪ We must forget the notion that the highest intellectual achievement is that of specialized and detailed knowledge.
▪ Now they own an international distribution company and have reached the highest levels of achievement in our business.
▪ All the little steps have added up to a high achievement.
▪ Now, the whole family has reached high levels of achievement in the Amway business.
▪ A high standard of achievement qualifies students to apply for entry to postgraduate taught courses and research studies.
▪ When this happens, the direct outcome is that they will sense higher levels of achievement, competence, and personal effectiveness.
▪ With us he is relaxed, amusing and always considerate, urging us all to the highest achievements.
▪ The Humphreys not only met their goals, they went on to even higher levels of achievement in this business.
human
▪ In that casual gesture she trampled upon an awesome human achievement and upon great sacrifices contributed by the natural world.
▪ All human achievement, he thought, involved challenge and response.
▪ Human nature and human achievements have come to appear far more ambiguous than the progressive hopes of the nineteenth century admitted.
▪ And yet they, too, ranked as human achievements.
important
▪ Meeting these attainable short-term goals and progressively crossing them off the list can provide an important sense of achievement and reinforcement.
▪ That he seemed to take no joy at all in this important achievement worried me.
▪ Reaching this third week is a very important and significant achievement.
▪ In the postwar years, we have seen some tendencies bypass Stalinism and register important achievements.
major
▪ That I had managed to stop them was a major achievement on my part.
▪ The parks package is considered a major pro-environment achievement by both Republicans and Democrats.
▪ One point of aid was used, which in no way diminishes what is a major achievement.
▪ But a question about his major achievements as vice president yields a remarkable, 3-minute response.
▪ But, undoubtedly,'s major achievements were in the field of vaccination against polio.
▪ His major achievement was a comprehensive and unusually liberal legal code.
▪ However, it is in reading that the major problem of achievement lies.
▪ Though it did not receive much publicity, it was a major achievement and long overdue.
mean
▪ No mean achievement given the established market domination by Sage.
▪ For an immigrant boy this marital alliance was no mean achievement.
▪ But that was no mean achievement.
▪ It will be no mean achievement.
▪ This is no mean achievement as it means achieving Guild membership consistently for five successive years.
▪ To have provided such an advance on existing theories is no mean achievement.
▪ Considering that we were completely and utterly untrained at this stage of the war, this was no mean achievement.
notable
▪ Or a history of notable achievement in some area.
▪ City of Darkness, City of Light is a notable achievement of historical fiction, though not a flawless one.
▪ Behind the scenes at London Zoo, staff have been responsible for some notable breeding achievements among rare and endangered species.
▪ Even some of the century's most notable achievements were presented in theological terms.
▪ Not withstanding such notable achievements I share some of the reservations the authors express about Wentwood Education.
outstanding
▪ The Award is one of four made annually to encourage the local community to mark outstanding achievements.
▪ I was just a simple plaque saying that I was rewarded for my outstanding achievement in science and math.
▪ Read in studio Britain's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports.
▪ Henley rower, Steve Redgrave has been honoured for his outstanding achievement in the sport.
▪ Animal prize: Billingham campus school has been awarded the Frank Cook Award for outstanding achievements and concern for animal welfare.
personal
▪ That she does it for the money, which symbolises affection, emotional security and personal achievement.
▪ To me it was a great personal achievement.
▪ As such it was prod and key to personal achievement and productivity.
▪ The emphasis is on personal achievement.
▪ In classrooms where such a pattern exists personal pace and achievement can be taken as the yardstick against which learning is measured.
▪ Looking at his personal relationships and achievements, he is at a loss to account for the degree of hostility.
▪ There has always been a close correlation between the status of older people, and their personal achievement.
▪ Within your personal achievements, however small, are the seeds of self-knowledge about your abilities, skills and potential.
proud
▪ His second term was anti-climatic, with few proud achievements.
▪ Despite all our complaints we were proud of the achievements of this country.
▪ He scored at a fair clip and can be very proud of his achievements.
▪ Back in the repair room, Mark's colleagues are proud of his achievement.
▪ We can afford to be proud of this achievement.
▪ The University can be justifiably proud of its achievements in this respect.
▪ We were quite proud of this achievement as it would seem to have no precedent.
real
▪ That was Oregon's real if flawed achievement.
▪ His only real legislative achievement was creation of the Peace Corps.
▪ She formed a instinctive rapport with many patients, her efforts giving her a real sense of achievement.
▪ There was also, says exploration manager Neil Ritson, a sense of real achievement.
▪ But the mid-west's real achievement has been to make its old businesses, particularly manufacturing, much more productive.
▪ An adequate transactional competence should be a real achievement of lasting value.
remarkable
▪ The stabilization of the currency overnight was a remarkable achievement.
▪ Dug by hand, the miles upon miles of tunnels were a remarkable achievement of both cleverness and will.
▪ National or political fervour can alternatively be the motor force of remarkable artistic achievements.
▪ That remarkable achievement seems more bizarre with every passing day.
▪ An almost remarkable achievement, even though you feel as though you've been in their bedroom before in a different life.
▪ For such a remarkable achievement the close co-operation of many generations of patient observers must have been necessary.
▪ It is a remarkable achievement for Trevino, in his first season on the Seniors' circuit.
▪ A truly remarkable achievement and one that demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Johnson Matthey has responded to the challenge.
significant
▪ Already in the background there were the significant achievements of the newly developed science of geology.
▪ However, she had a number of significant achievements that she could use in a new job.
▪ Today is particularly important because it marks the three-quarter stage of a very significant goal achievement.
▪ This is a significant achievement when figures show 87 percent of those locked up re-offend.
▪ It is therefore a significant achievement and bound to be considerable commercial value.
▪ His most significant literary achievement was his involvement with two important periodicals.
▪ This was a significant achievement in the highly competitive situation to which I have referred.
▪ That is a significant achievement, of which the hon. Gentleman should be aware.
technical
▪ Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.
▪ The Girl Scouts now offer a reward for technical achievement, a new computer badge.
▪ An unsullied safety record swelled pride in Concorde's technical achievement as the years passed.
▪ Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs would also be an unprecedented technical achievement.
▪ The second technical achievement which goes some way to explaining Ramsay's success, is his superb draughtsmanship.
▪ Civilizations offer compensations to some for the renunciations needed to maintain the technical achievements, and the wealth.
▪ The writer is able to measure artists not only against each other but also against standards of technical achievement.
■ VERB
celebrate
▪ Added to this were attractive displays of children's work, to celebrate their achievement.
▪ How do you celebrate children's achievements in your school?
▪ Read in studio Britain's top Olympic and paralympic athletes gathered today to celebrate the outstanding achievements in their sports.
▪ But since the War exhibitions have been held at Brussels, Montreal and Osaka by wealthy nations, celebrating their achievements.
crown
▪ The fact that it was invited to join a coalition marks the crowning achievement of its crusade to achieve political respectability.
▪ The crowning achievement was city hall.
▪ His crowning achievement was his invention of the railroad air brake.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
no mean feat/achievement/task etc
▪ But that was no mean achievement.
▪ For an immigrant boy this marital alliance was no mean achievement.
▪ Given that there are some 20,000 such fastenings in a boat of this size, this is no mean feat.
▪ In particular the notion that nurse training is for the young and for women only must be dispelled; no mean task.
▪ In this case it was no mean task.
▪ On Tuesday Invergordon Distillers reported a marginal improvement in underlying profits, no mean feat given the difficulties facing the whisky sector.
▪ This is no mean feat as the statute has 108 sections divided into 12 separate parts, together with 15 schedules.
▪ This is no mean task, especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months.
no small degree/achievement/task etc
▪ A large body of theory and no small degree of controversy exist relative to the treatment of uncertainty.
▪ The idea suggests alignment of individual goals and group purposes, no small achievement.
proudest moment/achievement/possession
▪ I know that her proudest moment was when she won a prize in high school in 1929, for writing.
▪ It's the proudest possession in my house.
▪ To me, it was the funniest, proudest moment I had ever had in baseball.
▪ To this day, this remains Morrissey's proudest moment.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He didn't realize until much later what a spectacular achievement his father made in getting his commission as an officer.
▪ I'm very proud of my achievements as program director.
▪ They read about his achievements in the press, and were filled with pride.
▪ Todd always downplayed his athletic achievements.
▪ We need to raise the level of academic achievement in public schools.
▪ Winning three gold medals is a remarkable achievement.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Excessive need to inflate the importance and achievements of oneself, males in general, or both.
▪ Five past pupils had this year obtained first-class Honours degrees, an achievement performed only once before, in 1950.
▪ Implied dismissal of past achievements creates a lack of confidence.
▪ Oswald's achievement was certainly magnified.
▪ Rose Briant added to her previous achievements by producing the show.
▪ The purpose: to present an award recognizing special achievement in the fight against a learning disability known as dyslexia.
▪ This was some achievement, since my office was on the fifth floor of the World Bank's headquarters.