Definition of Achieving

1. Verb. (present participle of achieve) ¹

2. Noun. achievements, emphasizing the process of accomplishing them. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Achieving

1. achieve [v] - See also: achieve

Lexicographical Neighbors of Achieving

achievability
achievable
achievance
achievances
achieve
achieved
achieved status
achievement
achievement age
achievement motive
achievement test
achievements
achiever
achievers
achieves
achieving
achievings
achillea
achilleas
achilles' tendon
achilles tendon
achillobursitis
achillodynia
achillorrhaphy
achillotenotomy
achillotomy
achilous
achily
achimenes
achiness

Literary usage of Achieving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Structure & Growth of the Mind by Sir William Mitchell (1907)
"This pleasure and pain in achieving, or failing to achieve, adds itself to our interest in the object, but, as before, can be distinguished from it. ..."

2. OECD Economic Surveys: Sweden by Publishing Oecd Publishing (2005)
"Achieving environmental objectives in the least-cost way Achieving sustainable development requires that economic, environmental and social objectives be ..."

3. Framework for Developing Skill Standards for Workplace Literacy by Eunice N. Askov (1998)
"Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) The Secretary of Labor 's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (US Department of Labor, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... namely, to his own personal guilt, and to the certainty of achieving forgiveness by expiation. Hie was more mystical than ever, and bad passed the night ..."

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