verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a talented/accomplished actor
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Jacobsen was one of the most accomplished actors of his generation.
achieve/accomplish an objective ( also attain an objective formal )
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The policy should help us achieve our objective of reducing paper waste.
perform/accomplish/achieve a feat
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the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
easily
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Tasks usually easily accomplished become major dilemmas.
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This is not easily accomplished , by any means.
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Since the main responsibilities of a manager are to manage, this is not easily accomplished from afar.
most
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He was immediately recognised as one of the most accomplished pianists of our time.
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What is good for the most accomplished students should be good for all students.
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It proved, in fact, one of the most accomplished films at the festival, with a superb performance from Bale.
much
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Indeed very few presidents in the last half century have accomplished much in the way of substantial policy change.
■ NOUN
feat
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Now you reset the glasses and invite others to accomplish your feat .
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How do babies accomplish such a remarkable feat ?
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Ian Wilmut, of the Roslin Institute, near Edinburgh, has already accomplished this feat in his second cloned sheep.
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The lucky boy accomplished the feat , and caught the evil, greedy king in a curse at the same time.
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How can they accomplish this feat ?
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He collected the $ 25, 000 prize Raymond Orteig had put up for anyone who could accomplish the astounding feat .
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Athletes, it seems, also appropriate this knowing to accomplish extraordinary feats .
goal
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Mr Sharpe has the right idea that prohibition fails to accomplish its goals .
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We will look at the means of accomplishing this goal in the final chapter of this book, Chapter 9.
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Over-permissive parents attempt always to use reason instead of overt authority to accomplish their goals .
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Transfer stations like the one the county owns in Carlsbad will be key to accomplishing that goal , they said.
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To accomplish that goal , the company intends to focus on global investments in exploration, pipeline and power projects.
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Since then, they have struggled to find other ways to accomplish the same goal .
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Few of his previous 11 were given much chance of accomplishing the goal .
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Now, that public endorsement is tempered by deep skepticism that the government and the army can accomplish their goals .
mission
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Two new fortresses were built far from Ulthuan to enable these long range missions to be accomplished .
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Holbrooke returns to his Wall Street investment banking job with mission accomplished .
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There was no way out. Mission half accomplished , we went for an evening walk.
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By this stage, the groundwork necessary for manned missions has been accomplished .
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His mission accomplished , Pierpont turned the plane back to Liuzhou.
objective
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The 1974 legislation would appear to have accomplished this objective .
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Would another strategy accomplish the same objective at lower costs?
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Perhaps her plan had accomplished its objective after all.
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We do not agree, however, that the trimester approach is necessary to accomplish this objective .
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We can see that managers do indeed use power strategies to accomplish their objectives , and they can clearly articulate them.
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A successful system for evaluating work-inhibited students must accomplish two major objectives .
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Anti-aircraft fire was intense but largely ineffectual, and we quickly accomplished our objectives .
purpose
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But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose .
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Teams must agree on how they will work together to accomplish their purpose and goals.
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This new structure must accomplish two special purposes .
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We could get up now and leave if we were merely here to accomplish the previously announced purpose of our visit.
task
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The first two tasks have been accomplished .
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Was the task possible to accomplish ?
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Cross off tasks you have accomplished and take satisfaction from doing so.
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Will I reach the other side gasping with exhilaration at the effort, the risk, the task successfully accomplished ?
thing
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The passage, however, included a bit about small men being unable to accomplish great things .
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They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
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I have a drive to accomplish things and make money, be with people.
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Then ask yourself: What did I know how to do that helped me accomplish those things ?
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I can do what she wants to do and have the gratification of helping her accomplish things .
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If you allot your time, you can accomplish fantastic things .
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How are parents supposed to accomplish these things ?
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It is true that a few rare geniuses accomplish great things with an effortlessness that is amazing.
things
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The passage, however, included a bit about small men being unable to accomplish great things .
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They accomplished great things in their time, but somewhere along the line they got away from us.
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I have a drive to accomplish things and make money, be with people.
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Then ask yourself: What did I know how to do that helped me accomplish those things ?
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I can do what she wants to do and have the gratification of helping her accomplish things .
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If you allot your time, you can accomplish fantastic things .
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How are parents supposed to accomplish these things ?
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It is true that a few rare geniuses accomplish great things with an effortlessness that is amazing.
ways
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There are two different ways of accomplishing this objective.
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Since then, they have struggled to find other ways to accomplish the same goal.
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If having more discretionary money would help you feel more in control, there are many ways to accomplish that.
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The various ways to accomplish this are the techniques and arts of therapy.
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But it remained split three ways on how to accomplish that goal.
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When they take that habit back to their own office, they often dream up better ways to accomplish their goals.
work
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This was the gift through which the Messiah had accomplished his work .
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If that can be accomplished with work rules the employees prefer, so much the better.
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Instead the curator is a collaborator, often engaging with the artist to accomplish the work .
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Under these conditions the subjects were able to accomplish more work than usual.
■ VERB
hope
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For myself, I hope to accomplish it without too much pain, and with present-day drug developments this seems probable.
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She will have to focus on basketball, become single-minded about the season if she hopes to accomplish anything.
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It was hoped to accomplish all this within a week.
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What did Khrushchev hope to accomplish ?
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What led you to undertake the reinstallation, and what do you hope to accomplish ?
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What do I possibly hope to accomplish ?
try
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I was trying to accomplish within my own small person what the malais hadn't been able to do to a nation.
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Part of what Wilson will try to accomplish in his last three years already has been revealed.
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The research study also underscores the importance of playing it straight when trying to get things accomplished .
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All our lives we try to accomplish something, to do some-thing.
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Because what we are trying to accomplish is complex, and not easily attained.
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Everyone knows what I was trying to accomplish .
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Some city residents who oppose annexation are concentrating on trying to accomplish positive alternatives.
want
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Alice Caldwell obviously had not clarified in her own mind what she wanted her memo to accomplish .
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Know what you want to accomplish before you reach the bargaining table.&038;.
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His most consistent phrase was that he wants to accomplish in Washington what the governors have done in their states.
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But what I want them to accomplish is responsibility for them-selves and also a respect for others.
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And he has things he wants to accomplish above and beyond another Super Bowl.
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Every time I wanted to accomplish anything in my life, some contrary force was directed against me and made it fail.
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They have to be committed to what management wants them to accomplish .
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And there are things I want to accomplish , sure.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an accomplished fact
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At first, the Soviets refused to accept Lithuania's secession as an accomplished fact.
mission accomplished
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His mission accomplished, Pierpont turned the plane back to Liuzhou.
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Holbrooke returns to his Wall Street investment banking job with mission accomplished.
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Napier fired the buildings and, his mission accomplished, withdrew to the coast.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Amy's very proud of what she's accomplished.
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She found the job frustrating, and felt she wasn't accomplishing anything there.
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What exactly do you hope to accomplish this year?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As you accomplish tasks, cross them off your list.
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At any rate, it had been accomplished.
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But not all pretended deeds have to fall short of their normal function in order to accomplish their communicative purpose.
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Easy enough to say, but sometimes hard to accomplish !
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How can so much movement in the wrong direction be accomplished in one year?