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Definition of “attainment

attainment (əˈteɪnməntPronunciation for attainment

Definitions

noun

  1. an achievement or the act of achieving; accomplishment

Usage examples

  • The Water of Life means the New Age, the New Man, the reaching of a new height, the attainment of a goal, the fulfilment of a dream!
    Shah, Idries, Kara Kush (1986)
  • While second-half performance is expected to improve, guidance attainment will be a challenge.
    The Advertiser, Sunday Mail (2004)
  • In fact, for some thinkers the attainment of apathy was the very goal of life itself.
    Glasgow Herald (2002)
  • Those two steps having been accomplished, the final step in the emancipation of the individual would be the attainment of economic freedom.
    Roper, Jon, Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century (1989)

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