VICTORY


Meaning of VICTORY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a deserved win/victory/success etc

Larsson’s goal gave Celtic a deserved victory.

a run of defeats/victories etc

His extraordinary run of successes has been stopped.

a surprise victory

She came to power in 1977, after a surprise victory in the general election.

a victory celebration

Some football fans were arrested during the victory celebrations.

an election victory/defeat

He became prime minister after a decisive election victory.

claim victory (= say that you are the winner )

The election results were in and the President was able to claim victory.

clinch a match/championship/victory etc

A last-minute touchdown clinched the game.

coasting to victory

The Ugandan relay team are coasting to victory .

decisive victory/result/defeat etc

hollow victory

They won, but it was a hollow victory .

landslide...victory

a landslide election victory

led...to victory

Beckham led his team to victory .

notable achievement/success/victory

Pyrrhic victory

romp to a win/victory

The women’s team romped to a 132–81 win over Ireland.

sweep to power/victory

Nixon and Agnew swept to victory with 47 million votes.

sweet taste of victory

the sweet taste of victory

the spoils of war/victory etc

win a victory

The protesters have won one victory already.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

comfortable

The platform had won a comfortable victory in the afternoon's debate on policy.

Morrell went on for a comfortable victory over three seconds clear of the defending champion, Mark Kirk, of Ballymena.

It sealed a comfortable victory and sent Rovers soaring into third place in the table.

consecutive

Nigel Lamb won all three individual programmes, to record his sixth consecutive championship victory .

There are golfers who have dominated certain events with consecutive victories .

The Huskers own a 42-game home winning streak, tying Texas for fifth on the list of consecutive home victories .

They also earned their second consecutive victory for the first time since last November.

decisive

Hugo Chavez won a decisive victory over Francisco Arias in his bid for a six-year term as Venzuela's president.

Nixon, meanwhile, spoke and acted as if the United States had won a decisive victory under his command.

As it happens the outcome, in my view, is a decisive victory for the individual organism.

The word on the grapevine is that this survey will show a decisive Gore victory .

William of Orange is seen to have worked the decisive victory at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.

He took four of six rounds and yet without ever making his supporters believe that a decisive victory was on the cards.

At last the moment to silence all the doubters with a decisive victory arrived.

He wanted forces capable of quick, decisive victories against diplomatically isolated opponents.

easy

Haynes then steered the tourists to an easy victory with more than 11 overs to spare.

Ford gratefully accepts, takes a sip and continues to watch as his team heads for an easy victory .

Fulfilling an outstanding fixture at Benllech A, the 1992 title winners romped home with an easy 11-1 victory .

The Ladies race produced another easy victory for Percival.

The Chargers dominated the Raiders on both sides of the line, walking away with a surprisingly easy victory .

The lopsided final score may suggest an easy victory .

Still others cruised to easy victory , including 93-year-old Strom Thurmond, R-S.

final

He scored 24 tries, two of them in the epic Challenge Cup final victory over Hull.

In the final victory of the Olympians over the brutish sons of Earth, Hercules' arrows played an important part.

However, the final victory over sin was anticipated but not completed on the cross.

More than 1,300 letters of congratulation had reached him within 10 days of the Croke Park cup final victory .

In preparation for the final victory which he believed would be his, Franco nominated his first cabinet in January 1938.

Once this had been achieved and the victory in the north assured, nothing mattered to Franco so much as the final victory.

great

How great are the victories you give!

The local press wants to hear all about the great victory .

His greatest victory came in 1975 when his friend Jerry Brown, then governor, forced through an agricultural labour law.

It was a great victory for the women.

Toby, next morning, was inclined to regard it as a great victory .

In the end he won a great victory for freedom.

It was almost as though this great victory had been taken away from us.

If I can give you the words you need to have, it will be a great victory .

labour

In February 1974, they feared acutely that a Labour victory would reverse their achievement.

This is immensely unpopular in the country and makes a Labour victory more likely.

Despite the above, I voted for Labour although its victory would have hit my pocket.

This would be the first public acknowledgment of the role of union leaders in a Labour victory .

Companies that were seen as vulnerable to a Labour victory led share prices upwards.

A Labour victory would have boosted their disposable income by £311, mainly because of the increase in child benefit.

Investment in housing, transport, education and social services would have risen with a Labour victory .

major

He also won two of the eight Ritz Club monthly awards, one for each of his Major victories .

What was needed now was a major legislative victory that would change the atmosphere of political resentment and resistance on Capitol Hill.

The High Elves had won their first major victory .

It was a major victory for women.

Campaigners against the proposed cuts say it's a major victory .

In announcing the decision, Clinton and senior aides claimed a major diplomatic victory for the administration.

military

Eisenhower was a good soldier blessed with a constellation of better soldiers who made both his military and political victories possible.

Military hardware alone is not sufficient to ensure military victory .

His assignment seems to have been the result of a military victory in a top-level power struggle with the civilians.

When Isabella wins a military victory she celebrates it with eleven days of psalms and the sonorous severities of priests.

Taylor rejected Sawyer's proposals, apparently convinced that he could win military victory and install himself as president.

Napoleon's military victories , for example, might just have to be attributed to his genius.

moral

Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.

Those are the kinds of moral victories that eluded them in Game 1.

narrow

Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.

On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory .

When the 1976 election returns were in, Jimmy Carter was found to have won a narrow victory over Gerald Ford.

Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?

A penalty scored three minutes from time by Andrew Mehrtens gave the champions the narrowest of victories .

John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory .

pyrrhic

If this constituted defeat for Malcolm McLaren, it was, perhaps, only a pyrrhic victory for Richard Branson.

I raised a stink about it and got my seat back, but it was a Pyrrhic victory .

It may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory .

This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory , because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser.

The triumph of postmodernism, at least in the west, has been a Pyrrhic victory .

Inflation seemed like a pyrrhic victory , almost a tease.

My only regret is that he didn't turn up at court to watch his Pyrrhic victory .

It was a pyrrhic victory for both sides.

■ NOUN

celebration

This signalled the start of the victory celebrations as Randalstown swamped the Victorians circle.

Tuesday, they put on their party duds and joined the victory celebrations .

Shah Jehan had now recovered from his illness and was able to move to Agra and join in the victory celebrations .

James McClure, R-Idaho, sponsored a victory celebration for second-term Sen.

Today's announcement of the drive for union members smacked of a victory celebration , surely a little premature ahead of Thursday's vote?

election

But ensuring it does is one of the most important tasks facing Mr Major in the aftermath of his election victory .

Bill Clinton's two election victories in 1992 and 1996 owed everything to women voters.

A national election victory gives a stronger moral claim to rule than a local election.

The government of President Slobodan Milosevic Friday conceded for the first time a handful of opposition election victories that it earlier annulled.

Thus they contributed greatly to the popularity of national economic planning which underpinned Labour's election victory in 1945.

It is a strange malady that strikes following a stunning election victory and tests your ability to avoid injudicious and arrogant actions.

The Conservative election victory weakens any quasi-formal link with Labour still further.

The election victories had lulled many of our supporters into a dangerous complacency.

landslide

Nationally, the Labour Party had enjoyed a stunning landslide victory .

Dole won a landslide victory , giving him a 5-1 lead in delegates over Forbes, his nearest challenger.

Will the Conservative promise to abolish education bring them a landslide victory ?

They haven't achieved such a swing since its landslide victory in 1945.

However, the landslide victory for reformist political leader president Khatami in 1997 has ushered in a new era of liberalism.

The opposition call for a boycott of the election was almost universally observed yet the Government still claimed a landslide victory .

Instead, Nu scored a landslide victory , winning 159 seats to the 41 the Stable group secured.

Yet if the polls are anything like right, Labour is on course for another landslide victory .

lap

He then took a victory lap around the floor of the arena and wound up having his picture taken with Ali.

A warm-up lap , unlike a victory lap, could be done by telephone.

■ VERB

achieve

Percival also achieved her fourth victory of the week, and both were presented with enough cut glass to open a shop.

Nonbiological gay parents have achieved scattered legal victories throughout the United States.

Militant believes that basic reforms in society can not be achieved without victory in the class struggle.

A military commander should order his troops in the way best calculated to achieve victory at a minimal cost.

Once this had been achieved and the victory in the north assured, nothing mattered to Franco so much as the final victory.

celebrate

Hoarse from the final days of furious campaigning, Clinton celebrated his victory at a party with campaign staff on Thursday night.

Nguyen Trai celebrated the victory with a poem of hope: Henceforth our country is safe.

The Tories should celebrate their victory .

His teammates were long gone, headed home to celebrate the biggest victory of their pro careers.

As the Conservatives celebrated their victory against the odds, a Labour inquest was already beginning.

Charleston celebrated the victory far into the night.

Were the magnetic field to be found, Newtonians would celebrate a sensational victory .

She celebrated his courtroom victories and consoled him when he lost.

claim

This one ended with both sides claiming victory .

Where it had claimed a victory , the same crew of specialists dissected the results and fed them into the machinery.

The election leaves it with no agenda for governing such division, even if it claims a victory .

In announcing the decision, Clinton and senior aides claimed a major diplomatic victory for the administration.

This outcome left both sides claiming victory .

Hamas leaders had said in recent interviews that they would claim victory if turnout was lower than 50 percent.

Critics accused Mr Berlusconi of surrendering the authority of the state to a few thousand extremists who could now claim victory .

This morning they were able to claim a small victory when the contractors turned away without doing the work.

clinch

Devoy took a mere 26 minutes to clinch her second-round victory .

Perhaps the establishment of the Sydney Opera House clinched its victory for bragging rights.

This time Radford did not let her chance slip away and she clinched the biggest victory of her career so far.

But Chatfield had the final say to clinch victory .

He then teamed up with partner Jason Jones to clinch the vital seven victory points in the deciding doubles encounter.

follow

When Lyle won the Masters in 1988, he did so immediately following another victory at Greensboro.

It is a strange malady that strikes following a stunning election victory and tests your ability to avoid injudicious and arrogant actions.

So time did not hang heavily during the weeks which followed the victory at Annan and Balliol's flight.

They have become involved in debilitating scandals and disastrous adventures following election victories .

Clearly Oswiu experienced a tremendous increase in personal power and prestige following his victory at the Winwaed.

After years of anonymity following her victory in court, McCorvey began to champion the abortion rights movement in 1984.

They followed up their victory by sacking Gondar, burning numerous churches.

lead

Mr Hattersley said this would lead to another Tory victory .

It can, as in snails, lead to victory or to defeat; or to an uneasy truce.

He was killed in the assault soon after, but the information he had gained as a scout led to victory .

Janet led us through the victories at the polls, then appointed a committee that drafted the Florida Educational Equity Act.

record

On this performance Leeds should record a few more away victories e.g. Swindon.

Cardiff recorded two emphatic victories in 24 hours, winning 9-2 against Whitley Warriors and 13-2 at Billingham.

Swinton recorded their first victory for 16 games against Hull.

score

Hawarden Park scored a 76-run victory over bottom of the table Chirk.

He led her to it, thinking that he had scored his first victory , but he was depressed.

In Arizona, Forbes scored an upset victory this week, in large part because of his flat-tax proposal.

Left: new Honda V12 performed faultlessly for Senna to score easy victory .

Meantime, Brian Bell of Bangor scored an impressive victory in the men's 100m freestyle with a time of 52.70.

Adams was aboard when Party Politics scored his first victory in a two-and-a-half mile novice chase at Warwick in Feb 1990.

Emerson had begun his career with Lotus in 1970, scoring his first grandprix victory at Watkins Glen in 1971.

seal

Hepburn converted to seal the victory .

Just a little bit more was needed from them to seal an amazing victory .

He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory .

Another half-hour of it would have sealed a momentous victory .

A try by Plange and two from Richard Price sealed Sheffield's victory .

Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.

It sealed a comfortable victory and sent Rovers soaring into third place in the table.

secure

By placing Franco in overall command, the Nationalists made a quantum leap forward in their efforts to secure victory .

Ladies al; so will have an enormous challenge in trying to secure a coveted victory .

McCoy grabbed the rebound and Dollar hit two free throws to secure the victory .

However, independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour.

Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.

Yet the party leaders also used various forms of manipulation and intimidation in their efforts to secure a victory .

win

Last month the Southern party, which advocates secession, won its first mayoral victory , in a village in Alabama.

Aside from elections, Councils were able to use pressure to win victories for Nonconformity.

They had learned to speak, and so had won their first great victory over Time.

As the Daily Telegraph said in a leader: The Government has won a very important victory .

In the end he won a great victory for freedom.

This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war.

Nixon, meanwhile, spoke and acted as if the United States had won a decisive victory under his command.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be cheated of victory/success etc

convincing victory/win

After a convincing win in game 1 Kasparov fell prey to overconfidence, losing games 4 and 5.

If not a thoroughly convincing victory it further establishes Mason in the heavyweight division and his career will now take definite shape.

It is the convincing win the Ducks needed, and Jody is more relieved than happy.

Let's start preparing for a convincing win against Sheffield Utd.

Lets hope for a convincing win.

Pasok by-election victory Pasok secured a convincing victory in a by-election in the Athens B district on April 5.

Then, leading 12-4, Hall took three points running for a convincing victory.

emphatic win/victory/defeat

But Warrington achieved an emphatic win over Widnes with a highly disciplined performance.

Cardiff recorded two emphatic victories in 24 hours, winning 9-2 against Whitley Warriors and 13-2 at Billingham.

It was an emphatic win and a remarkable turnaround in his fortunes.

moral victory

The protesters have won at least a moral victory.

Although it saved them substantial costs, these cases were not exactly searing moral victories for the healthcare plans.

Those are the kinds of moral victories that eluded them in Game 1.

narrow victory/defeat/majority/margin etc

Adjust the starting point so that you avoid a very narrow margin at the perimeter.

Crowds gathered in central Lima last Sunday night to cheer his narrow victory over former president Alan Garcia.

John F.. Kennedy that helped propel the handsome young Massachusetts Democrat to a narrow victory.

On election night, however, the team squeaked out a narrow victory.

Surprise! the seventh firm won the tender by a narrow margin.

Their relatively late arrival in the quarter coupled with their costs and the narrow margins on the surprise Model 20 impacted earnings.

Was Buzz Calkins' narrow victory over Tony Stewart enough to keep them interested?

While both developer subsidies passed, the narrow margin clearly indicates the voters of this valley are beginning to wise up.

razor-thin victory/margin

Years of price wars, for example, have created razor-thin margins in personal computers.

resounding success/victory/defeat etc

At $ 3. 99, a weekday all-you-can-eat lunch buffet proved a resounding success.

His foray into biography is also a resounding success.

It was his most resounding defeat in terms of lengths.

On the one hand, so many victories; on the other, resounding defeat at Trafalgar in 1805.

On the other hand, others have described the issue as a resounding success as all the shares were sold.

That resounding success, moreover, was followed by others.

The organisers claimed the conference was a resounding success.

The outcome - a resounding victory for the home team, not that they appeared particularly surprised.

seal a victory/win/match

Andy Cole's first international goal sealed victory in injury time.

He then supplied the finishing touch to a 32-pass move to seal victory.

sweeping victory

The second was a sweeping victory, and the Athenians followed it up by landing troops on Aigina and besieging the town.

taste success/freedom/victory etc

And Long has yet to taste victory in this tournament, unlike his half-back partner Martyn.

Others decided to taste freedom in other fields of social activity: speculation on the black market, opening businesses etc.

They just wanted to taste victory after all that losing.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

victory celebrations

He had won a comfortable victory in the general election.

The crowds were celebrating Italy's victory .

Their 2-1 victory over the Australians was completely unexpected.

We're very confident of victory .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But that does not mean he has yet won a conclusive victory in the debilitating war between president and parliament.

Florida alone provided nearly one-tenth of the 270 electoral votes required for victory , while Ohio commands 21 votes.

It looked like victory for Kleomenes.

Labour's stunning victory in 1997 left the Tory party in denial about the seriousness of its situation.

Perhaps this represented a human victory over inanimate forces, or perhaps man merely judged it to be so.

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