(victories)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ is a success in a struggle, war, or competition.
Union leaders are heading for ~ in their battle over workplace rights.
...the former Welsh rugby union skipper who led Great Britain to ~ over France.
? defeat
N-VAR
2.
If you say that someone has won a moral ~, you mean that although they have officially lost a contest or dispute, they have succeeded in showing they are right about something.
She said her party had won a moral ~...
PHRASE: N inflects, PHR after v, v-link PHR