pathway to success
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3.6
- noun
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camino al éxito
- Again, there can be a pathway to success; it's just that the road just got a little longer and a whole lot more bumpy.
So, you know, we need to maintain a pathway to success in order to keep people healthy.
- So, you know, we need to maintain a pathway to success in order to keep people healthy.
Examples
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While the bureaucratic story emphasized a new, relevant pathway to success for the corporate business elite, the independent course remained meaningful to many middle-class entrepreneurs.
Academic text (1991) -
He'll see a template, a pathway to success in Bill Snyder's methods.
Blog text (9) -
So, you know, we need to maintain a pathway to success in order to keep people healthy.
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And their kids' pathway to success was being closed off by a system that underfunded their education.
Blog text (17) -
He'll see a template, a pathway to success in Bill Snyder's methods.
Blog text (9) -
Simple: one of the main objectives of the meeting is to demonstrate programs that create career pathways to success for job seekers.
Blog text (6) -
Building pathways to success for low-skill adult students: Lessons for community college policy and practice from a longitudinal student tracking study. New York, NY: Columbia University, Teachers College, Community College Research Center.
Academic text (2011) -
Indeed, sex was not directly related to academic achievement or school bonding, suggesting that global comparisons of academic achievement between males and females are not informative when attempting to understand pathways to success for academic achievement.
Academic text (2009) -
You see, a lot of us think that extra school is the pathway to success—maybe you're lost, wandering, and confused, wondering what you want to do with your life, and in your search for fulfillment and happiness, you consider going back to school because your title and credentials will guarantee you success, right?
Blog text (33) -
Education is the most important pathway to success in any career.
Synonyms
25
2.7
A series of jobs someone has during their working life that lead to higher roles
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3.9
A quick route to success or promotion
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3.5
A series of job levels a person moves up to reach higher positions
Antonyms
How Effective
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3.7
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3.6
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3.8
- US
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3.6
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4.1
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6.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
pathway + to + success
The meaning 'a means or method of achieving success' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'pathway' (a route or way) combined with the directional preposition 'to' and the goal 'success'. This route/metaphor-of-direction construction is cross-linguistically common and follows ordinary compositional semantics, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Pathway to success paints a picture of a clear path (pathway) that leads up to a bright place called success on a hill, like a road that takes you to your goal. So, it means 'a way to achieve success' or a method that helps someone 'to succeed'.