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accomplishment

[ uh-kom-plish-muhnt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

an act or instance of carrying into effect; fulfillment:
the accomplishment of our desires.
Synonyms: execution, completion
Antonyms: failure
something done admirably or creditably:
Space exploration is a major accomplishment of science.
anything accomplished; deed; achievement:
a career measured in a series of small accomplishments.
Synonyms: consummation
Often accomplishments.
1. a grace, skill, or knowledge expected in polite society.
2. any acquired ability or knowledge.
Synonyms: proficiency, acquisition

accomplishment

/ əˈkʌm-; əˈkɒmplɪʃmənt /

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English; accomplish + -ment; compare French accomplissement

But millions of rules result in perpetual error, and, as a terminal side effect, make leadership and accomplishment illegal.

Every president hopes to have at least one signature accomplishment or issue his administration can be remembered for.

A wonderful accomplishment by Kevin and his team and a thrill for Les and Leslie Parrott.

Time and again, the author confuses chattering class dissatisfaction with an honest assessment of accomplishment.

Earthlings, we can celebrate the accomplishment of landing a probe on a new world.

And being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment, she drew satisfaction from the work in itself.

Yet all of them are to be viewed as having been performed in order to the accomplishment of the Covenant's design.

The speed of the movement probably varies; it may at times require some thousand years for its accomplishment.

No accomplishment within the scope of human knowledge is so beautiful in all its features as that of epistolary correspondence.

Afterwards, finding no special use for this accomplishment, he gave it up entirely.

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