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attainment

attainment

9 4.7
Reaching a goal or level through effort
  • noun
  • /əˈteɪnmənt/
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  • The student's hard work and dedication led to the successful attainment of her academic goals.
  • educational attainment
  • goal attainment
  • degree attainment

He said in religion, what what was the attainment, the achievement of it?

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Examples

  • First, we need to support good teaching and spread best practice with a plan to improve attainment in primary schools.

  • Failure to persist to degree, certification, or goal attainment can be devastating to students and their families.

    Academic text (2015)
  • For example, 4 used national data to explore the effects of educational attainment on earnings.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Finally, individuals with greater educational attainment were less likely to experience either disability.

    Academic text (2013)
  • My government will continue to work to build a fairer society to improve education attainment and child health.

  • The data offer a unique opportunity to control for educational attainment and labor market experience associated with worker productivity.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Demographic data, such as age, gender, race, income, and educational attainment, were not obtained for participants.

    Academic text (2012)
  • And I quote, educational attainment is the measure by which people are being sorted into poverty or relative wealth.

  • Peer relationships are an effective tool in children's attainment of social, emotional, linguistic, mental, and physical skills.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Accordingly, we expect gains in educational attainment to narrow racial salary discrepancies.

    Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

success
vsattainment
1.0

Getting what you want after working hard

refers to the action of achieving rather than the resulting state
achievement
vsattainment
344 2.3

A success you reach after working hard

is broader, covering reaching levels or conditions as well as goals
triumph
vsattainment
262 3.3

A great victory or success that brings joy

is the act of achieving goals without requiring great victory feelings
accomplishment
vsattainment
184 3.4

A successful task or goal that you finish

is focused on achieving goals rather than only finishing
completion
vsattainment
108 2.4

The act of finishing a task or project

is about reaching a goal or level rather than merely finishing work
fulfillment
vsattainment
  • US
58 3.6

A feeling of happiness and satisfaction when you achieve something important

is about achieving goals, not the happiness that follows
fruition
vsattainment
32 7.0

The successful end of a plan or project

focuses on the act of achieving rather than the feeling of satisfaction
arrival
vsattainment
23 2.3

A successful result after much effort that shows you reached a goal

is similar but highlights reaching an endpoint rather than the process
consummation
vsattainment
  • Formal
3 7.6

The act of finishing something so it is complete

focuses on achieving goals rather than only finishing processes
grand achievement
vsattainment
1 3.9

An important success that shows great skill and effort

is the general act of achieving without implying great size or importance
reaching
vsattainment
3.1

The act of getting a goal you worked hard for

is broader, covering goals plus levels or conditions
obtainment
vsattainment
7.6

The act of getting something you need or want

focuses on achieving or reaching goals rather than simply gaining things

Antonyms

557 1.3

Not reaching what was planned or expected

How Attained

mastery
37 4.2
achievement
344 2.3
attainment
9 4.7
progress
2.5

Surface Forms

attainment singular
attainments plural

Morphology

attainment = attain (transparent) = attain + ment

Clear nominalization from the verb 'attain' using the productive suffix '-ment' to indicate the act or result of achieving.

Etymology

Attainment comes from the verb attain, which originally meant 'to touch' or 'reach' and shares the old root tang- as in tangible and the English word 'touch'. So attainment is literally about 'reaching' or getting something, which is why we use it for achieving a goal or level.