Collocations for "successful"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "successful" in context.
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successful
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- is a successful [person, businessman, politician]
- that was a successful [day, party]
- was a successful [experiment, plan]
- bring it to a successful [conclusion, close, end, finish]
- have always wanted to be successful
- (have) always dreamed of being successful
- was successful at [his job, getting their support]
- was successful in [his job]
- is very successful with [women]
- has been successful for (many) years
- is successful and [popular, effective, profitable]
- the successful implementation of
- has (had) a successful career in [biology, business, sales]
- (glad) the treatment was successful
- hope the treatment is successful
- in order to ensure the successful [return, completion] of
- was [commercially, privately] successful
- [enormously, remarkably] successful
'successful' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
academic
- accomplishment
- achievement
- aggressive
- applicant
- attack
- attempt
- ballot
- bedroom
- brand
- business
- businessman
- candidate
- career
- claim
- collaboration
- combination
- completion
- coup
- curtail
- devise
- entirely
- entrepreneur
- equally
- essential
- execution
- financial
- firm
- franchise
- guarantee
- highly
- hijack
- humble
- implementation
- initiative
- innovative
- installation
- integration
- intervention
- launch
- merger
- most
- nonetheless
- notification
- popular
- prosecution
- proven
- record
- reward
- right