accomplishac‧com‧plish /əˈkʌmplɪʃ $ əˈkɑːm-, əˈkʌm-/ ●○○ verb [transitive] 
We have accomplished all we set out to do. Mission accomplished (=we have done what we intended to do).► see thesaurus at succeed
WORD ORIGINaccomplish
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French acomplir, from Vulgar Latin accomplere, from Latin ad- ‘to’ + complere ( ➔ COMPLETE1)VERB TABLE
accomplish
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | accomplish |
| he, she, it | accomplishes | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | accomplished |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have accomplished |
| he, she, it | has accomplished | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had accomplished |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will accomplish |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have accomplished |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am accomplishing |
| he, she, it | is accomplishing | |
| you, we, they | are accomplishing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was accomplishing |
| you, we, they | were accomplishing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been accomplishing |
| he, she, it | has been accomplishing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been accomplishing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be accomplishing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been accomplishing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Amy's very proud of what she's accomplished.
- She found the job frustrating, and felt she wasn't accomplishing anything there.
- What exactly do you hope to accomplish this year?
- As you accomplish tasks, cross them off your list.
- At any rate, it had been accomplished.
- But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose.
- Easy enough to say, but sometimes hard to accomplish!
- How can so much movement in the wrong direction be accomplished in one year?
THESAURUSsucceed in doing something
verb [intransitive] to do something you tried or wanted to do: · Will they succeed in winning the election?· He wanted to make her jealous, and he succeeded.
verb [intransitive] to succeed in doing something difficult, after trying hard. Manage to do something is very commonly used instead of succeed in doing something in everyday English: · He finally managed to find an apartment near his office.· Don’t worry – I’m sure we’ll manage somehow.
verb [transitive] to succeed in doing something good or important: · She’s achieved a lot in the short time she’s been with the company.· If we are to achieve our goals, we have to plan properly.
verb [transitive] formal to achieve something: · The government accomplished its objective of reducing violent crime.· What do you hope to accomplish this year?
to be successful in your career, or to succeed in reaching a place or part of a competition: · Only a few people make it to the top and become professional singers.· We finally made it to Chicago.· Which two teams will make it to the final?
phrasal verb to succeed in doing something, especially when you could easily have not succeeded. Pull off sounds rather informal: · Italy pulled off a great victory over Germany.· I’d never performed on my own before, and wasn’t sure if I could pull it off.
Longman Language Activatorto succeed in doing something to do something that you hoped to do, tried to do, or wanted to do: · She wanted to be the first woman to climb Mount Everest and she almost succeeded.· I tried to reassure Billy's mother that it was a passing phase, but I don't think I succeeded.· Muir succeeds where other designers have failed -- her clothes are original, yet stylish.succeed in doing something: · In one year, we've succeeded in increasing profits by 40%.succeed at: · I admired Goldie, because she had succeeded at a task that had even defeated my mother.
to succeed in doing something difficult after trying very hard, especially when you almost do not succeed: · Martin still hasn't got his invalidity pension sorted out, but he's managing all right at the moment.· If you hadn't have been here, I don't think I would have managed.· I don't know how he managed it, but the crisis is over.· Can you manage that door Mike? It looks awfully heavy.manage to do something: · He finally managed to find an apartment near his office.· At least three hostages managed to escape.manage with/without something: · Well, I suppose we could just about manage without electricity for the night.
to succeed in doing something, especially something that needs a lot of work or effort such as passing a test or getting a job: · Does Joey have a realistic chance of being successful at the audition?be successful in doing something: · If I'm successful in raising over £500, those funds will go to the Bible School.
to be fairly successful in doing something, or to achieve part of what you wanted to achieve: · Our aim was to disrupt the enemy's transport network and we had some success.· If we only have some success in reducing the number infected with HIV, I feel it will have been worthwhile.have some success/have limited success in doing something: · The Santa Barbara seismic research team has had some success in predicting earthquakes.
to gradually start to achieve something that you want to achieve, by working hard: · I'm not very good at Japanese yet, but I feel I am making progress.· We have made very great progress in reducing the number of deaths on our roads.make progress with/towards/on: · At last I began to make some progress with my research.make progress in doing something: · BEA has made good progress in implementing the new health and safety regulations.
to succeed in doing something important, especially something that other people will admire you for: · She's achieved a lot in the short time she's been with the company.· The reason I achieve good results is because I work hard -- and so could you.· When you get your MA, you really feel that you've achieved something.· He had achieved all his goals for the organization, and felt there were no challenges left there for him.
to succeed in doing or finishing something good that you have planned to do, after trying hard for a long time: · What exactly do you hope to accomplish this year?· She found the job frustrating, and felt she wasn't accomplishing anything there.
if you get results , you achieve what you are trying to do: · It was three or four years before we really started getting results.· This shows that if we devote sufficient energy and resources to a problem, we get results.· As I manager, I pride myself on getting results.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Mission accomplished (=we have done what we intended to do).COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone
Mission accomplished (=we have done what we intended to do).· Jacobsen was one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.
the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone (also attain an objective formal)· The policy should help us achieve our objective of reducing paper waste.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Tasks usually easily accomplished become major dilemmas.· This is not easily accomplished, by any means.· Since the main responsibilities of a manager are to manage, this is not easily accomplished from afar.
· He was immediately recognised as one of the most accomplished pianists of our time.· What is good for the most accomplished students should be good for all students.· It proved, in fact, one of the most accomplished films at the festival, with a superb performance from Bale.
· Indeed very few presidents in the last half century have accomplished much in the way of substantial policy change.
NOUN· Now you reset the glasses and invite others to accomplish your feat.· How do babies accomplish such a remarkable feat?· Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, has already accomplished this feat in his second cloned sheep.· The lucky boy accomplished the feat, and caught the evil, greedy king in a curse at the same time.· How can they accomplish this feat?· He collected the $ 25, 000 prize Raymond Orteig had put up for anyone who could accomplish the astounding feat.· Athletes, it seems, also appropriate this knowing to accomplish extraordinary feats.
· Mr Sharpe has the right idea that prohibition fails to accomplish its goals.· We will look at the means of accomplishing this goal in the final chapter of this book, Chapter 9.· Over-permissive parents attempt always to use reason instead of overt authority to accomplish their goals.· Transfer stations like the one the county owns in Carlsbad will be key to accomplishing that goal, they said.· To accomplish that goal, the company intends to focus on global investments in exploration, pipeline and power projects.· Since then, they have struggled to find other ways to accomplish the same goal.· Few of his previous 11 were given much chance of accomplishing the goal.· Now, that public endorsement is tempered by deep skepticism that the government and the army can accomplish their goals.
· Two new fortresses were built far from Ulthuan to enable these long range missions to be accomplished.· Holbrooke returns to his Wall Street investment banking job with mission accomplished.· There was no way out. Mission half accomplished, we went for an evening walk.· By this stage, the groundwork necessary for manned missions has been accomplished.· His mission accomplished, Pierpont turned the plane back to Liuzhou.
· The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective.· Would another strategy accomplish the same objective at lower costs?· Perhaps her plan had accomplished its objective after all.· We do not agree, however, that the trimester approach is necessary to accomplish this objective.· We can see that managers do indeed use power strategies to accomplish their objectives, and they can clearly articulate them.· A successful system for evaluating work-inhibited students must accomplish two major objectives.· Anti-aircraft fire was intense but largely ineffectual, and we quickly accomplished our objectives.
· But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose.· Teams must agree on how they will work together to accomplish their purpose and goals.· This new structure must accomplish two special purposes.· We could get up now and leave if we were merely here to accomplish the previously announced purpose of our visit.
· The first two tasks have been accomplished.· Was the task possible to accomplish?· Cross off tasks you have accomplished and take satisfaction from doing so.· Will I reach the other side gasping with exhilaration at the effort, the risk, the task successfully accomplished?
· The passage, however, included a bit about small men being unable to accomplish great things.· They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.· I have a drive to accomplish things and make money, be with people.· Then ask yourself: What did I know how to do that helped me accomplish those things?· I can do what she wants to do and have the gratification of helping her accomplish things.· If you allot your time, you can accomplish fantastic things.· How are parents supposed to accomplish these things?· It is true that a few rare geniuses accomplish great things with an effortlessness that is amazing.
· The passage, however, included a bit about small men being unable to accomplish great things.· They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.· I have a drive to accomplish things and make money, be with people.· Then ask yourself: What did I know how to do that helped me accomplish those things?· I can do what she wants to do and have the gratification of helping her accomplish things.· If you allot your time, you can accomplish fantastic things.· How are parents supposed to accomplish these things?· It is true that a few rare geniuses accomplish great things with an effortlessness that is amazing.
· There are two different ways of accomplishing this objective.· Since then, they have struggled to find other ways to accomplish the same goal.· If having more discretionary money would help you feel more in control, there are many ways to accomplish that.· The various ways to accomplish this are the techniques and arts of therapy.· But it remained split three ways on how to accomplish that goal.· When they take that habit back to their own office, they often dream up better ways to accomplish their goals.
· This was the gift through which the Messiah had accomplished his work.· If that can be accomplished with work rules the employees prefer, so much the better.· Instead the curator is a collaborator, often engaging with the artist to accomplish the work.· Under these conditions the subjects were able to accomplish more work than usual.
VERB· For myself, I hope to accomplish it without too much pain, and with present-day drug developments this seems probable.· She will have to focus on basketball, become single-minded about the season if she hopes to accomplish anything.· It was hoped to accomplish all this within a week.· What did Khrushchev hope to accomplish?· What led you to undertake the reinstallation, and what do you hope to accomplish?· What do I possibly hope to accomplish?
· I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais hadn't been able to do to a nation.· Part of what Wilson will try to accomplish in his last three years already has been revealed.· The research study also underscores the importance of playing it straight when trying to get things accomplished.· All our lives we try to accomplish something, to do some-thing.· Because what we are trying to accomplish is complex, and not easily attained.· Everyone knows what I was trying to accomplish.· Some city residents who oppose annexation are concentrating on trying to accomplish positive alternatives.
· Alice Caldwell obviously had not clarified in her own mind what she wanted her memo to accomplish.· Know what you want to accomplish before you reach the bargaining table.· His most consistent phrase was that he wants to accomplish in Washington what the governors have done in their states.· But what I want them to accomplish is responsibility for them-selves and also a respect for others.· And he has things he wants to accomplish above and beyond another Super Bowl.· Every time I wanted to accomplish anything in my life, some contrary force was directed against me and made it fail.· They have to be committed to what management wants them to accomplish.· And there are things I want to accomplish, sure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
to succeed in doing something, especially after trying very hard SYN achieve: - His mission accomplished, Pierpont turned the plane back to Liuzhou.
- Holbrooke returns to his Wall Street investment banking job with mission accomplished.
- Napier fired the buildings and, his mission accomplished, withdrew to the coast.
We have accomplished all we set out to do. Mission accomplished (=we have done what we intended to do).► see thesaurus at succeed