attainment
/əˈteɪnm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
1The action or fact of achieving a goal towards which one has worked: the attainment of corporate aims...
- While striving towards paradise has energy and direction, attainment of the goal has none.
- Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought that freedom struggle forward towards its attainment.
- As one undertakes the various tasks involved in goal attainment, it is normal to experience failure as well as success.
1.1 [count noun] (often attainments) A thing achieved, especially a skill or educational achievement: he spoke of the low educational attainments of his workforce...
- Researchers have found substantial social problems associated with single parenting: higher crime rates, drug abuse, lower educational attainments, chronic poverty.
- And in spite of their consistently high educational attainments, professionals of Indian descent in the U.K. find it hard to break into the upper ranks, where they are severely underrepresented.
- Men with qualifications got half of the questions on the links between diet and disease wrong, while men without educational attainments answered two-thirds incorrectly.
Synonyms
achievement, accomplishment, realization, realizing, fulfilment, fulfilling, effecting, completion, consummation;
success, fruition;
securing, gaining, gain, procurement, procuring, acquiring, acquisition
rare effectuation, reification
proficiency, competence, mastery, accomplishment, achievement, qualification;
art, skill, talent, gift, aptitude, faculty, ability, capability