0 to succeed in finishing something or reaching an aim, especially after a lot of work or effort: --
1 to do or obtain something that you wanted after planning and working to make it happen: --
I am hopeful that we can achieve peace eventually, but it is not going to be easy.
She achieved her objective of qualifying for the US Olympic team.
2 to successfully finish or do something you wanted to do, especially after a lot of effort: --
achieve success/profitability/savings
It is hard to see how these projects can achieve their potential .
achieve an objective/goal/target The division has achieved its objective of being a major force in home entertainment.
attempt/strive/seek to achieve sth Salespersons strived to achieve maximum sales.
Here, language standardization achieved great success in a less developed country with less advanced technical equipment in a fairly short period.
It became evident that interpretation and technique are integrated and interdependent; technical decisions being made in order to achieve the desired musical outcome.
For achieving this purpose, the commission stresses the importance of having reliable and comparable information on health interventions.
A good robotic design achieves high efficiency of this motion transformation.
This filter mechanism is achieved in our approach by defining the relevant concepts and roles needed to describe solutions to a configuration problem.
One day before each new infestation the beans were carefully mixed to achieve a random distribution of host larvae.
Indeed, patients were often reluctant to be prescribed a detoxification drug which had not led to them successfully achieving abstinence in the past.
A number of control schemes for achieving this objective have been reported in the literature.
