success
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[edit] Etymology
From Latin successus, from verb succedere.
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success (plural successes)
- The achievement of one's aim or goal.
- His third attempt to pass the entrance exam was a success.
- (business) financial profitability.
- One who, or that which, achieves assumed goals.
- Scholastically, he was a success.
- The new range of toys has been a resounding success.
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[edit] Translations
achievement of one's aim or goal
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(business) financial profitability
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person who achieves his or her goals
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[edit] External links
- success in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- success in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
