adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a good/successful season
▪ The club has had another successful season.
a successful businessman
▪ a highly successful businessman
a successful career
▪ David had had a successful career in banking.
a successful enterprise
▪ She is the owner of an extremely successful enterprise.
a successful marriage
▪ The key to a successful marriage is friendship.
a successful outcome
▪ Hopes for a successful outcome to the war were fading.
a successful partnership
▪ We are looking forward to a successful partnership.
a successful/effective strategy
▪ The most successful strategy is often the simplest one.
a successful/profitable/thriving business
▪ Within a few years she had established a thriving business in London.
a successful/unsuccessful coup
▪ The armed forces are too weak to mount a successful coup.
an effective/successful campaign
▪ The Conservatives failed to mount an effective campaign.
an unsuccessful/a successful attempt
▪ an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government
economically successful
▪ an economically successful area
highly successful/effective/efficient
▪ a highly successful politician
second largest/most successful etc
▪ Africa’s second highest mountain
successful
▪ Their efforts were successful, and they won the contract.
successful
▪ The surgery was successful and he’s recovering well.
successful
▪ Was the project successful?
successful
▪ We do not yet have enough evidence for a successful prosecution.
successful/unsuccessful applicant (=someone who is accepted or not accepted for a job etc)
▪ Successful applicants will be expected to travel extensively.
the successful candidate (=the one who gets the job or position)
▪ The successful candidate will be innovative and self-motivated.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ If it proves as successful as its developer, Ramtron, claims, it could replace all other types of data storage.
▪ Still, doubts linger that the program will be as successful as its backers claim.
▪ The next event was just as successful, although it sailed closer to the wind.
▪ Any organization will be only as successful as those at the bottom are willing to make it.
▪ He was ambitious to be recognized as a physiologist as successful as his father.
▪ The program was as successful as it was popular.
▪ Elsewhere, however, management strategies have not been as successful.
highly
▪ If that was its method of discouraging tourists in their search for quaint old London pubs, it was highly successful.
▪ Specialists who are very good in their profession will find increased opportunities to create or join highly successful professional service firms.
▪ Experience here has shown it to be highly successful.
▪ He was a highly successful businessman, a leader in a local evangelical church.
▪ In spite of this generous beginning the financial management of Mary's reign was highly successful.
▪ Telemarketing in the world of opera is not highly successful.
▪ Would you also like to be in control of your emotions and on the path to a highly successful future?
how
▪ The follow-up survey planned for Spring 1985 will test just how successful they have been in job search.
▪ These projects are only now coming on line and how successful they will be has yet to be determined.
▪ Instead, it reflected how successful they had been in aggressively promoting their rather indifferent work.
▪ Finally, I asked him how successful his program was.
▪ When our album Cuts Both Ways was released in 1989, I couldn't believe how successful it was.
▪ They worked hard at Muirfield to make the bunkers look natural, and after visiting Auchnafree I understood how successful they were.
▪ Only a Review/Recall Stage at the end will determine how successful you have been in your reading.
▪ The story that yearns to be told is how successful we have been.
less
▪ They had hosted their own shoot at Dolphinton where they had been less successful.
▪ Where the transitions were more subtle, as in changing cultural conceptions among the literati, the Jesuits were less successful.
▪ By contrast, the Protestant attack on traditional religious festivals was far less successful.
▪ During the course of my research, I discovered that there were less successful instances, but happily these were few.
▪ It may live longer, but it will be less successful at reproducing and may fail to pass on its genes.
▪ He landed without incident, but his pachyderm pal proved less successful.
▪ Unfortunately, with a marginally less successful Cup than League record, Athletico have never been in that position.
▪ The council has been far less successful.
more
▪ Today it remains to be seen whether Museveni's essentially centralist approach will be more successful than its predecessors.
▪ The circle seems unbroken, and now, in this new millennium, Showcase promises to be even more successful.
▪ Amperometric transducers have generally been more successful than their potentiometric counterparts, allowing detection of many organic solutes.
▪ In every way, the San Diego convention has been more successful for Republicans than the Houston bash-fest.
▪ Progress in the Cup the next year was more successful, if less spectacular.
▪ There have been repeated allegations that the current interceptor tests have been rigged to appear more successful than they have actually been.
▪ The truth commissions have sometimes proved more successful, in part because the present governments are not responsible for past abuses.
▪ The whole predator's body, including all its genes, is more successful because it runs faster.
most
▪ A gradual but firm approach to weaning is the most successful.
▪ Groups seem to be most successful when undertaking tangible projects, as Black Mountain was when building its second campus.
▪ It was the most successful moment of his life.
▪ The two most successful ones were hosted by the Arizona schools.
▪ Grey and silver are definitely the most successful colours when pressing.
▪ Well, it was our most successful item.
▪ They were the most successful comedy films of all time.
▪ This is the third year of the program and the most successful by far.
particularly
▪ However, attempts to estimate percentage crystallinity in a sample using n.m.r. have not been particularly successful.
▪ This is a task at which he has not been particularly successful, so far.
▪ He had not been a particularly successful student.
▪ Friedrich Paneth, a Viennese chemist and keen amateur photographer, was particularly successful with the process.
▪ Though the orchestra still lacks a substantial endowment, a new fund-raising strategy has proved particularly successful.
▪ This part of the enterprise was particularly successful and we are grateful to Len for supplying the goods and our Hon.
▪ The latter is particularly successful on barracuda.
so
▪ On its own, it would not be so successful.
▪ It was Burrows who ensured that the television coverage of a tournament played in five countries was so successful.
▪ Within a short time his business became so successful he bought the shop where he had worked without pay.
▪ As it was so successful I have agreed I will do another one in April.
▪ Joe was not so successful in his effort to secure a commission.
▪ Now it's been so successful, it's opening on a permanent basis.
▪ He and his girlfriend occupied two stools and had a lot of attitude because they were so successful.
very
▪ Classical elasticity assumes this to be the case and it has been very successful with continuous media.
▪ I fear I have not been very successful, in any case.
▪ We were very successful in getting more than £40 million for unpaid benefits.
▪ Walker Equipment is a very successful company specializing in the sale and leasing of heavy construction equipment.
▪ Some centres had been very successful in training these children to make valuable objects.
▪ One guy who has been very successful at it once told me his secret of success.
▪ So we weren't very successful at hitch-hiking.
▪ It was a very successful flight test.
■ NOUN
business
▪ It's a highly successful business.
▪ This simple name has helped break through the clutter of all the other suppliers to build a successful business.
▪ During that time Cathy and Margaret have created a thriving, successful business.
▪ This system has worked well for some of our most successful business enterprises, particularly in the technological and medical industries.
▪ In 1686 he inherited his father's properties and continued his successful business as a producer of linseed and rape oil.
▪ She thought that she could build a successful business of her own by offering herself as an agent to authors she chose.
▪ Once again, I was restless and unfulfilled, though I now had a successful business and was happily married.
▪ Today the Foglios have a successful business with an impressive income.
businessman
▪ Galloway had made his way in life and was now a successful businessman.
▪ Perry, a successful businessman, brought a brisk and decisive managerial style to the Defense Department.
▪ He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern, successful businessman.
▪ Don Basilio is a successful businessman in the wool industry.
▪ Jaggard's first book was registered with the Stationers' Company on 4 March 1595; he rapidly became a successful businessman.
▪ He was a highly successful businessman, a leader in a local evangelical church.
▪ Perhaps Mond the chemist and highly successful businessman would approve of the mixture.
▪ He lied when he ran for governor on the platform of being a successful businessman and political outsider.
campaign
▪ Financially, Peter and I had had a successful campaign together.
▪ It will be a highly successful campaign and will cost £5 million.
▪ We countered with a successful campaign to convince the young lawyers section to take a pro-ERA stance.
▪ The successful campaign to introduce commercial television into Britain in the 1950s is a good example of this.
▪ Barbour is now Republican national chairman, and Stevens went on to a string of successful campaigns, including those of Sens.
▪ He was also a leading member of Mr Major's successful campaign team for the Tory leadership 16 months ago.
▪ It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign.
candidate
▪ The successful candidate is awarded his next kyu grade.
▪ It is envisaged that the successful candidate will have a recent postgraduate qualification or a good honours degree.
▪ If a glowing prospect is held out then a successful candidate will expect it.
▪ The successful candidates will fill the ten process, six industrial mechanic and two automation technician trainee positions that were made available.
▪ When the College was in its early years, certain outstanding medical men signed the diploma awarded to successful candidates.
▪ And his seven years of study have paid off, with his name among those of this week's successful candidates.
▪ The next steps are for the successful candidates to take.
career
▪ Their previous cutter Vigilant was still going strong and it was hoped that Searcher would have an equally successful career.
▪ My friend the liberal won an upset victory and went on to a successful career in politics.
▪ Thus Hans Sloane began the thorough grounding on which he was to build his successful career.
▪ Women do the same work as men, have the same successful careers, but not always for the same pay.
▪ Its present director is Sidney Newey, a successful career railwayman who sees almost endless possibilities for new routes.
▪ Guilt Myra was an elegant young woman of thirty-three with a successful career in advertising.
▪ Good practical administrative abilities must be secured in order to make a successful career out of conveyancing.
▪ Close friends since schooldays, Joanna and Helen are now successful career women in their twenties.
completion
▪ A nationally recognised qualification should be awarded on successful completion of a validated course.
▪ Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps.
▪ A rather grand certificate marking the successful completion of all the tasks also adds to the attraction.
▪ Upon successful completion, the salesperson is then entrusted to sell the washing machines and dryers unaided.
▪ On the other hand the exhilaration following the successful completion of such a task is well worth the effort.
▪ The successful completion of this part of the set-up is announced by three beeps.
▪ The University also awards an ordinary degree on successful completion of certain courses.
▪ On successful completion of the training they then transfer to another ship in the fleet and work as a waiter or waitress.
conclusion
▪ For example, employees may receive bonus payments on the successful conclusion of their overseas assignments.
▪ Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, was brought to a successful conclusion and the canonization ceremonies followed in the year 1726.
▪ Whenever this happens, the onus is on you to control the call and steer the conversation to a successful conclusion.
▪ The successful conclusion of the operation now commencing will be of great value to our country.
▪ For all those reasons, it is essential that there is a successful conclusion to the Maastricht summit next month.
▪ Each successive crisis in our history is mapped and each depends in a measure on the successful conclusion of the ones previous.
▪ A successful conclusion would boost the world economy by £200 billion.
▪ We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion.
entrepreneur
▪ Again, like most successful entrepreneurs, he knows the value of showmanship.
▪ Most successful entrepreneurs are hard on themselves, in the sense that they are never easily satisfied.
▪ The plots were essentially the same; like any successful entrepreneur, Alger knew when he was on to a good thing.
▪ The world of successful entrepreneurs is full of smiling faces and confident attitudes.
▪ Billy Butlin became the most successful entrepreneur in this explosive growth.
▪ This is true among all the successful entrepreneurs we have studied.
▪ Bill went on to become a successful entrepreneur.
▪ In fact, most successful entrepreneurs get used to treating virtually everyone they meet as a possible piece of business.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fabulously rich/expensive/successful etc
▪ And she must have been fabulously rich to live in a house like this.
halfway decent/normal/successful etc
▪ And you need to be halfway decent and honest and real.
▪ Discs viable, a second halfway decent act was required.
▪ Reading about that stuff, downing really halfway decent coffee.
▪ Sefelt has pulled back halfway normal, swelling up and down with big wet, rattling breaths.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a successful businessman
▪ a rich, successful entrepreneur
▪ a small but successful program to boost the number of African-Americans getting into college
▪ After a long run in the band Genesis, he had a successful solo career.
▪ Did you have a successful shopping trip?
▪ Eddie Murphy is one of Hollywood's most successful stars.
▪ For twenty years, he was the head of a successful law firm.
▪ Freire introduced highly successful literacy programs in Brazil.
▪ Gradually, word spread, and we built up a very successful business indeed.
▪ He returned to Merseyside after a successful tour with Johnny Gentle.
▪ If the treatment is successful, she could be back at school next month.
▪ it was a highly successful campaign.
▪ It was one of the President's most successful speeches.
▪ Our most successful product is based on a very simple idea.
▪ The case of Thailand illustrates why family planning programs have been so successful in many countries.
▪ The scheme was started in January 2000, and has prove largely successful.
▪ The surgery was successful.
▪ Their new advertising campaign has been very successful.
▪ This has been Baltimore's most successful art show ever.
▪ Three years ago she married a successful businessman, and now she never sees her old friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another one trying to prevent the Federation descending into chaos; he would be no more successful than the Archon.
▪ He hated his field of work, at which he was actually quite successful professionally.
▪ He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern, successful businessman.
▪ So what makes a successful manager?
▪ The better you know them, the more you can use them, the more successful you will be.
▪ To be successful, a former member must have served on an influential committee and acquired expertise on controversial issues.