major victory
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandvictory
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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victory
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈvɪk.tər.i/us/ˈvɪk.tɚ.i/
an occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc. or the fact that you ...
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(Definition ofmajorandvictoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Union leaders recognized that they risked losing the support of rank-and-file members unless they produced amajorvictoryconcerning occupational health, and black lung in particular.
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That may sound a very small thing, but at the time it was amajorvictory.
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That is amajorvictoryfor common sense.
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Indeed, it could be claimed to have been our firstmajorvictory.
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If we can obliterate their arguments, democracy and tolerance will have won amajorvictory.
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It is, perhaps, amajorvictoryfor them.
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That represents amajorvictoryfor those young people, their families and their communities.
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The new legislation is significantly stronger than the current legislation and it is amajorvictory in the fight to ensure better help and protection for victims.
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But we had thatmajorvictory.
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This is amajorvictory.
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This is amajorvictorywhich we do not want to jeopardise by voting for populist amendments which do not offer any prospect of a real improvement.
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These to my mind show amajorvictoryfor moderation in spite of the crudities and distortions of the first-past-the-post method.
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We had just had amajorvictory.
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Why was it shown as amajorvictorywhen in the previous month the deficit had been £78 million?
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They then proclaimed that price-matching was the height of their ambition and, having achieved that, claimed to have scored amajorvictory.
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It will be amajorvictoryfor the opponents of disarmament, with all the public disillusionment that this will mean.
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If one is attacked by a tiger, to say nothing of two, and remains erect at all, that, in my opinion, is amajorvictory.
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This proved to be amajorvictoryfor the allied forces.
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This was seen as amajorvictoryfor the party ahead of legislative elections in 2007.
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The case was amajorvictoryfor choice and individual rights at the end of life.
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