success
♦♦ suc|cess /səks'es/ (successes)
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Success is the achievement of something that you have been trying to do.
It's important for the long-term success of any diet that you vary your meals.
...the success of European business in building a stronger partnership between management and workers.
≠ failure
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Success is the achievement of a high position in a particular field, for example in business or politics.
Nearly all of the young people interviewed believed that work was the key to success.
≠ failure
3 [N-UNCOUNT] usu with poss
The success of something is the fact that it works in a satisfactory way or has the result that is intended.
Most of the cast was amazed by the play's success...
≠ failure
4 [N-COUNT]
Someone or something that is a success achieves a high position, makes a lot of money, or is admired a great deal.
We hope it will be a commercial success.
≠ failuresuc|cess sto|ry (success stories)
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Someone or something that is a success story is very successful, often unexpectedly or in spite of unfavourable conditions.
Sock Shop was one of the high-street success stories of the 80s.
1 [N-UNCOUNT]
Success is the achievement of something that you have been trying to do.
It's important for the long-term success of any diet that you vary your meals.
...the success of European business in building a stronger partnership between management and workers.
≠ failure
2 [N-UNCOUNT]
Success is the achievement of a high position in a particular field, for example in business or politics.
Nearly all of the young people interviewed believed that work was the key to success.
≠ failure
3 [N-UNCOUNT] usu with poss
The success of something is the fact that it works in a satisfactory way or has the result that is intended.
Most of the cast was amazed by the play's success...
≠ failure
4 [N-COUNT]
Someone or something that is a success achieves a high position, makes a lot of money, or is admired a great deal.
We hope it will be a commercial success.
≠ failuresuc|cess sto|ry (success stories)
[N-COUNT]
Someone or something that is a success story is very successful, often unexpectedly or in spite of unfavourable conditions.
Sock Shop was one of the high-street success stories of the 80s.