achieve

achieve

achieve AW [achieve achieves achieved achieving]   [əˈtʃiːv]    [əˈtʃiːv]  verb
1. transitive ~ sth to succeed in reaching a particular goal, status or standard, especially by making an effort for a long time
Syn:  attain
• He had finally achieved success.

• They could not achieve their target of less than 3% inflation.

2. transitive ~ sth to succeed in doing sth or causing sth to happen
Syn:  accomplish
• I haven't achieved very much today.

• All you've achieved is to upset my parents.

3. intransitive to be successful
• Their background gives them little chance of achieving at school.
Derived Word: achievable
Verb forms:
 
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French achever ‘come or bring to a head’, from a chief ‘to a head’.  
Thesaurus:
achieve verb T
• She finally achieved success.
manage • • succeed • • reach • • accomplish • |BrE fulfil • |AmE fulfill • |informal pull sth off • |formal attain • • effect •
achieve/succeed in/reach/accomplish/fulfil/attain a/an goal/objective
achieve/succeed in/accomplish/fulfil/attain a/an aim
achieve/reach/fulfil/attain a target
achieve/accomplish/fulfil an ambition  
Example Bank:
• By the end of the afternoon we had achieved very little.
• I achieved a longstanding ambition to fly solo.
• I knew that the demonstration would achieve nothing.
• Sooner or later our shared efforts will achieve results.
• The present law has failed to achieve its objectives.
• They haven't achieved much yet.
• how to achieve a balance between work and family life
• All you've achieved is to upset my parents.
• I haven't achieved very much today.

• These students need to achieve academically in order to enter the labour market.