Crossword clues for fulfil
fulfil
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fulfil
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
achieve/fulfil your aim
▪ The Internet bank achieved its aim of attracting 50,000 customers last year.
▪ Once she had decided to go into publishing, she set out to fulfil her aim.
achieve/fulfil/reach/realize your potential (=succeed as much as you have the potential to succeed)
▪ A lot of athletes find it difficult to achieve their potential.
achieve/fulfil/realize a dream (=do or get what you want)
▪ He had finally achieved his dream of winning an Olympic gold medal.
achieve/fulfil/realize your ambition (=do what you wanted to do)
▪ It took her ten years to achieve her ambition.
▪ He was prepared to go to any lengths to fulfil his ambition.
▪ I want to thank all those who made it possible for me to realize a lifetime 's ambition.
fulfil your dutyBritish English, fulfill your duty American Englishformal (= do what is needed)
▪ The school has failed to fulfil its legal duty towards students.
fulfil your/its promise (also live up to your/its promise) (= be as good as expected)
▪ This young player has begun to fulfil his promise.
▪ The rest of this movie never quite lives up to the promise of that opening moment.
fulfil/honour a contract (=do what you have agreed to do)
▪ If you have signed a contract, you have to fulfil it.
fulfil/honour a pledge (=more formal than keep)
▪ The time is coming when they will have to honour that pledge.
fulfil/satisfy sb's expectationsformal (= be as good as someone hoped or expected)
▪ The band failed to fulfil the fans' expectations.
grant/fulfil sb's wish (=give someone what they want)
▪ His parents would now be able to grant his wish.
meet/fulfil/honour an obligation (=do something that you have a duty to do )
▪ The company has been unable to meet its financial obligations.
▪ All member states must fulfil their obligations according to the EC treaty.
▪ The government failed to honour its obligations under the terms of the agreement.
meet/satisfy/fulfil a condition (=do what has been agreed)
▪ In order to get a state pension, you must satisfy certain conditions.
meet/satisfy/fulfil the criteria
▪ Does your experience meet the criteria for the job?
perform/fulfil a function
▪ In your new job you will perform a variety of functions.
▪ The church fulfils a valuable social function.
prophecy...fulfilled
▪ The prophecy that David would become King was fulfilled.
satisfy/fulfil a desire
▪ Companies aim to satisfy people's desire for variety.
satisfy/fulfil a requirementformal (= meet them)
▪ Our aim is to satisfy our customers’ requirements.
serve/fulfil a purpose (=be used in a particular way)
▪ The building must have served a religious purpose.
▪ Many old school buildings are no longer suitable for fulfilling their original purpose.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
▪ His ambition to read law at Oxford, however, was never fulfilled.
▪ Draft history is full of players who never fulfilled their promise.
▪ Richard Baxter's ambition of going to university was never fulfilled.
■ NOUN
aim
▪ The governors must then decide on the policies and priorities that help the school to fulfil its aims.
▪ This would then fulfil the aim of revitalising the association, which consisted of 30 women four years ago.
▪ The programme may yet overcome its problems, fulfil its aims and even benefit the poor.
▪ In fulfilling these aims, specific use of the potential of different aspects of language and of literacy has been instrumental.
ambition
▪ Maria Aznar, fulfilled his long-standing ambition to win promotion to the status of a large medium-sized country.
▪ In part, this was because she had fulfilled her ministerial ambitions.
▪ He offered his services to the Edinburgh Missionary Society as an overseas candidate, thus fulfilling a youthful ambition.
▪ The male has fulfilled his ambition of bigamy at the expense of a female.
▪ To fulfil this ambition he was prepared to go to any lengths, nomatterhow underhand or devious they might be.
▪ While their four children were growing up, she put off fulfilling her ambition to run an antique shop of her own.
▪ This is an excellent time of year to fulfil your ambitions!
▪ Since then he has fulfilled many ambitions, learned new skills and tested his courage and physical fitness to the limit.
commitment
▪ This Bill fulfils the commitment given by my right hon. Friend.
condition
▪ The new arrangement would be conditional on fulfilling the following conditions.
▪ It did not, however, specify what would happen if no candidate fulfilled this condition.
contract
▪ In the course of fulfilling our social contracts we make moral judgements of work.
▪ All the gold fulfilled maturing forward contracts where the contract price exceeded the spot price.
▪ Most of the councils would like to fulfil their contracts.
▪ The colliery is struggling to fulfil its contracts and is burdened by £1.7 million in debts.
▪ He could fulfil the contract by supplying wheat from any source; the contract is therefore not void.
▪ Often they have to work 12 hours a day to fulfil contracts.
criteria
▪ Only one control tissue fulfilled our criteria for positivity.
▪ Second, that patients fulfilling our criteria will die in spite of sclerotherapy.
▪ Results One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.
▪ Results Of the 88 patients invited to participate, 62 fulfilled the inclusion criteria and agreed to the study.
▪ The studies that fulfil these two simple criteria are few.
▪ A learner is usually searching for some property which fulfils criteria which have nothing to do directly with the observed data.
▪ Only patients who fulfilled the criteria described by Isaacson etal were included.
▪ Admission is obtained by written application, proving that you fulfil the set criteria.
criterion
▪ How few human beings in the entire galaxy could fulfil that criterion!
▪ Whichever, both entries fulfil my third criterion.
demand
▪ She is threatening to pull out of the government and join Mr Sharif's agitation if Mr Ishaq does not fulfil her demands.
desire
▪ How do we set about getting the true beliefs that we need if our actions are to succeed in fulfilling our desires?
▪ She fulfilled her desire and became pregnant from her desire.
destiny
▪ To be a street criminal is therefore to fulfil cultural destiny.
▪ The contemporary hero is one who stands out against the crowd to fulfil a personal destiny.
▪ Most animals fulfil their destiny with that curious strategy.
duty
▪ Eighteen months on, some head teachers are complaining that inspectors are fulfilling their duties with a zeal which smacks of prejudice.
▪ In this capacity he conscientiously fulfilled his duties for thirty-one years in a perfect apostolic spirit.
▪ Voice over Question: Do you feel you have fulfilled your duties towards him?
▪ It gives considerable scope to NGOs, community organisations and others to put pressure on the state to fulfil its duties.
▪ We know that both Charles and Diana are anxious to fulfil their duties to the Crown and do so conscientiously.
▪ By doing this, they could fulfil their special duty as intellectuals, making an important contribution to the nation.
▪ Greater Glasgow Health Board denied liability and said that the anaesthetist had fulfilled all his duties.
▪ Local authorities must fulfil this duty by providing a range and level of services appropriate to the need within the locality.
expectations
▪ It simply works to fulfil our expectations.
▪ And then the disease cooperated in fulfilling their expectations.
▪ On the evidence of his recital he is increasing in assurance and beginning to fulfil expectations.
▪ Whatever the case, rest assured that the 1992 Tattoo will amply fulfil your expectations of it.
▪ An exciting yacht that fulfils everyone's expectations, she is stylish, luxurious and very fast.
▪ However, she never forgave him for failing to fulfil her expectations later.
▪ If the Government did not fulfil these expectations, they could find difficulty in future in arranging any such competition.
function
▪ The issues discussed in this section relate to how reliably and validly these functions can be fulfilled.
▪ I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil.
▪ But this is not the only practical function it aims to fulfil.
life
▪ There have been times since John died when I thought that I would never have a really fulfilling life again.
▪ For them, it's often difficult, sometimes impossible, to have a relaxed, fulfilling relationship later in life.
▪ Given a little additional help along the way, they will enjoy as happy and fulfilling a life as anyone else.
means
▪ It is the basis of human society and the means to fulfil our aspirations.
mission
▪ She wanted to go back home and he wanted to fulfil his mission and destroy the shapechangers.
need
▪ You are listening to your needs and fulfilling them.
▪ Consequently this section deals with identifying the needs that drinking fulfils and developing alternative ways of satisfying those needs.
objective
▪ Now we realise that we should help farmers to fulfil our conservation objectives as well.
▪ The move fulfils Barclays' objective of expanding in long-term savings.
▪ Its Report, delivered in November 1905, fulfilled this objective admirably.
obligation
▪ He had dishonestly and intentionally not fulfilled that obligation.
▪ It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations.
▪ More importantly, will the employer adequately fulfil his obligation to complete the educational process by producing sound technicians and businessmen?
▪ It reported in mid-1861, but suggested only that the peasantry of the western provinces fulfil their obligations in cash rather than labour.
▪ Peasants under serfdom tended to be forced to fulfil their obligations.
▪ The question mark at the end requires a response, helping the offended party to fulfil their scriptural obligation to forgive.
▪ The evening Mass at Woodstock on Tuesday fulfils the obligation.
patient
▪ Second, that patients fulfilling our criteria will die in spite of sclerotherapy.
▪ Results One hundred and eighty patients fulfilled the criteria for entry into the surveillance programme.
▪ Only patients who fulfilled the criteria described by Isaacson etal were included.
▪ Mone of the patients fulfilled the clinical, endoscopic, and histopathological criteria for pouchitis.
▪ Thirty four patients fulfilled these criteria; of these, 25 gave informed written consent to participate in the study.
▪ The second is that his treatment of psychotic patients fulfils most of the criteria for an ideal milieu therapy.
pledge
▪ We shall fulfil the pledge given by the Prime Minister in 1987 and abrogated every year since then.
▪ His proposal fulfilled a 1992 campaign pledge to provide a middle-class tax cut.
▪ It is about time chairmen and administrators started to listen to the managers and worked on fulfilling the pledge.
▪ He said he had promised the nation an election then and would fulfil the pledge using all constitutional means.
▪ Downing Street announced that the Prime Minister intended to fulfil his longstanding pledge.
potential
▪ Many teachers express concern that even their more able pupils do not fulfil their potential in the subject.
▪ Being an entrepreneur is a way of fulfilling your creative potential.
▪ All girls and boys, from every background, must be able to discover their talents and fulfil their potential.
▪ It's only in the past 18 months, however, that he's started fulfilling his true potential.
▪ Tiriac became a father figure and Nastase was at least able to fulfil some of his potential.
▪ That is not to say, of course, that it won't take longer for her to fulfil her potential.
▪ Their failure was that, because of man's inhumanity to his fellow beings, they did not fulfil their potential.
▪ Thus, only here in Communist society can people fulfil their potential for creativity and goodness.
promise
▪ If the reality doesn't fulfil the promise of the ideals, do you junk the ideals?
▪ For 15 years, Lindbergh more than fulfilled its promise.
▪ The following year, Bark Psychosis signed to Virgin and finally began to fulfil the promise of their live shows.
▪ Draft history is full of players who never fulfilled their promise.
▪ In September 1976 he joined Spurs for £200,000, but his career there never fully fulfilled its earlier promise.
▪ Instead, people earn both through a reinforcing cycle of making and fulfilling promises.
▪ Lewis has begun to fulfil his promise.
▪ We're going to make them fulfil the promises they made three years ago.
prophecy
▪ The power that had selected him to fulfil the prophecy.
▪ However, among their ranks it is universally believed that their leader - Rabbi Menachem Schneerson - will fulfil the Messianic prophecy.
▪ I finally encountered the bomb baby, thus fulfilling the ironic prophecy of my dreams.
▪ It was intended, quite flamboyantly, to fulfil Old Testament prophecy.
purpose
▪ It is very understandable for the person not to want to be aware that it probably will not fulfil its purpose.
▪ The ritual done, we settle at last into fulfilling the purpose of this expedition.
▪ It fulfils a dual educational purpose.
▪ And fulfilling such purpose is a source of self-esteem.
▪ From the start, therefore, the Pact did fulfil a limited military purpose.
▪ He had followed his script, fulfilled his stereotyped purpose, but never really acted of his own accord.
▪ A referral may be made, for example, where the s8 order is not working well or fulfilling its original purpose.
▪ The remaining elements complete the information and fulfil the communicative purpose of the utterance.
requirement
▪ What was needed was some one outside and above the territorial nexus, requirements fulfilled only by the young king.
▪ Our aim is to transport goods from site to site so that requirements are fulfilled from the stocks available at other sites.
▪ Does it mean that once the information becomes known by market professionals the requirement is fulfilled?
▪ However, except for specially made tiny instruments, this requirement is fulfilled at all measurable speeds.
responsibility
▪ The institutions themselves, being closer to the work in question, were much better placed to fulfil that responsibility.
▪ The lives of our young people depend on our fulfilling our responsibility.
▪ They were allowed to raise and spend rates, within set limits, to fulfil these responsibilities.
▪ And I believe we are fulfilling that responsibility.
▪ Richard Stevenson Managing for a better environment Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities.
▪ We audit our production processes to ensure that we fulfil our environmental responsibilities.
▪ Both often lack the capacity or willingness to fulfil their legal responsibilities.
role
▪ Or the top executive leader can be a role fulfilled by two or more individuals.
▪ What role should education fulfil for a profession, and how should it serve it best?
▪ The enforcement agent in a compliance system has a wide variety of roles to fulfil.
task
▪ To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial, planning and land acquisition powers.
▪ Don't undermine the patient's confidence by accusing him of not trying when he can not fulfil a task.
▪ This sort of thing happens very often when a new data.processing system is to be installed to fulfil a particular task.
▪ Law and custom thus defend the family as the prime agent of socialisation only in so far as it fulfils the task currently prescribed.
▪ Secondary institutions were also expected to assist primary ones in fulfilling their essential tasks.
▪ Second, we are concerned with how the representatives perceive their role and how they organise themselves to fulfil their tasks.
▪ The intention is to determine whether pupils are being offered appropriate experiences and the school is adequately fulfilling its task.
▪ Yet I was fulfilling my task - the filling of young minds with facts.
wish
▪ Those who did not fulfil their clients' wishes lost income.
▪ Today her school payed tribute to her courage and fulfilled her final wish, the planting of 2 trees in her memory.
■ VERB
continue
▪ It is my earnest wish that rugby continues to fulfil this role.
▪ Many organists nevertheless continue to fulfil the additional and varied roles of performing or conducting, and of private teaching.
enable
▪ To enable them to fulfil these tasks UDCs have been granted extensive financial, planning and land acquisition powers.
▪ The artificial strip will enable the club to fulfil a packed playing programme this summer, including 30 junior games.
fail
▪ However, she never forgave him for failing to fulfil her expectations later.
▪ Above that limit the bassoons begin to sound rather thin and thus fail to fulfil the desired object.
help
▪ In addition, clothes must help a woman to fulfil her special roles.
▪ Now we realise that we should help farmers to fulfil our conservation objectives as well.
▪ The governors must then decide on the policies and priorities that help the school to fulfil its aims.
▪ Richard Stevenson Managing for a better environment Companies are increasingly turning to environmental auditing to help them fulfil their responsibilities.
▪ And think what good you're doing by helping me fulfil all Uncle's requirements for getting hold of my inheritance.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Eisenhower finally fulfilled his campaign pledge to end the war in Korea.
▪ In the ROTC program, students fulfill a service commitment after college, in return for a scholarship from the Army or Navy.
▪ Schools should fulfill the needs of poorer children, giving them a chance in society.
▪ The general did not have confidence that the Fourth Fleet would be able to fulfil its mission.
▪ You must give more detailed answers if you are to fulfil the examiner's expectations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And fulfilling such purpose is a source of self-esteem.
▪ But what conditions must be fulfilled for such references to be significant?
▪ Fairclough has fulfilled this role quite admirably.
▪ I expect that he will do his part to fulfil the agreement between us and him.
▪ Now, however, he realized that those dreams were just fantasies and could never be fulfilled.
▪ Those who did not fulfil their clients' wishes lost income.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fulfil
Fulfill \Ful*fill"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fulfilled; p. pr. & vb. n. Fulfilling.] [OE. fulfillen, fulfullen, AS. fulfyllan; ful full + fyllan to fill. See Full, a., and Fill, v. t.] [Written also fulfil.]
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To fill up; to make full or complete. [Obs.] ``Fulfill her week''
--Gen. xxix. 27.Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds.
--Wyclif (Mark vii. 27). -
To accomplish or carry into effect, as an intention, promise, or prophecy, a desire, prayer, or requirement, etc.; to complete by performance; to answer the requisitions of; to bring to pass, as a purpose or design; to effectuate.
He will, fulfill the desire of them fear him.
--Ps. cxlv. 199.Here Nature seems fulfilled in all her ends.
--Milton.Servants must their masters' minds fulfill.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fulfil
see fulfill. Related: fulfilment.
Wiktionary
fulfil
vb. 1 (context archaic English) To fill up. 2 To satisfy, carry out, bring to completion (an obligation, a requirement, etc.). 3 To emotionally or artistically satisfy; to develop one's gifts to the fullest. 4 To obey, follow, comply with (a rule, requirement etc.).
WordNet
fulfil
v. put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation" [syn: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill]
fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill]
fulfil the requirements or expectations of [syn: satisfy, fulfill, live up to] [ant: fall short of]
[also: fulfilling, fulfilled]
Usage examples of "fulfil".
I will hope that in feeling my guilt--in acknowledging the superexcellence of virtue, I fulfil, in part, his design.
The heedless fellow fulfilled his commission so well that the actress, feeling insulted, told him that she dared me to call on her.
Stripped and adust In a stubble of empire, Scything and binding The full sheaves of sovranty: Thus, O, thus gloriously, Shall you fulfil yourselves!
It is the easier for the biographer to maintain this reverential attitude, inasmuch as the prayer of Agur has been fulfilled in him, he has been given neither poverty nor riches.
An English force would occupy Afghanistan, and compel the Ameer, as an ally of the Indian Government, to fulfil his obligations.
I knew that Arain went into the earthworks, sometimes to fulfill the sacred and mysterious duties of the High Colonel, sometimes to fulfill her passion for knowledge.
I feel, however, that in view of the expansion and the growing importance of the administrative sphere of the Cause, the general sentiments and tendencies prevailing among the friends, and the signs of increasing interdependence among the National Spiritual Assemblies throughout the world, the assembled accredited representatives of the American believers should exercise not only the vital and responsible right of electing the National Assembly, but should also fulfill the functions of an enlightened, consultative and cooperative body that will enrich the experience, enhance the prestige, support the authority, and assist the deliberations of the National Spiritual Assembly.
Even if Avion had no intention of fulfilling its obligation, Dakru would have been expecting a shipment, a rendezvous.
She had accepted his proposal without illusions, only to discover too late that his long bachelorhood had left him with a set of habits and fantasies which made it impossible for him to fulfil his part of the bargain.
And thus right faith is not necessary in the one baptized any more than in the one who baptizes: provided the other conditions are fulfilled which are essential to the sacrament.
She begged me to compel the Jew to fulfil his engagement, and I promised to do so.
I may be to fulfil my duty and break up this meeting, it behoves me as a fair-minded man to ascertain first what manner of meeting it is that I am breaking up.
Still, he must walk it as he tried to fulfill both promises to his father-exemplifying Bushido and performing a heroic deed-virtually alone, in the face of obstacles that now included a new and powerful enemy.
And if we can fulfill our experiential needs without buying stuff at all, it might be possible to pursue more happiness with fewer environmental consequences.
Apollonius Rhodius, Quintus Calaber, Nonnus, Lucan, Statius, or Claudian, have sought even to fulfil a single condition of epic truth.