actual achievement

collocation in English

meaningsofactualandachievement

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actual
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/us
/ˈæk.tʃu.əl/
existing ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofactualandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Apparently, a lack of symptoms of emotional distress early in middle school is associated with higheractualachievementat the end of middle school.
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It was these factors that mediated the negative impact of students' distress on theiractualachievement.
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Different families offer unequal environments for the development of capacities both for effort and foractualachievement.
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Is the scale being used to indicate progression along a trait continuum or theactualachievementof defined and meaningful steps?
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The promise of mechanisation may have been rather higher thanactualachievement.
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I have promised that it would be jointly reviewed and adjusted if necessary in the light ofactualachievement.
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Theactualachievementmay, of course, as in previous years, be considerably better than the forecasts.
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Is there any practical relationship between planned production and theactualachievement?
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He pointed out that theactualachievementof investment in the present period was far below that.
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I am not mistaking their promises, which are very vague, with theiractualachievement.
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That is one of time great hopes of the future, rather than theactualachievement, of the day.
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If we look back to what was expected in terms of expansion even then, we see how remarkable theactualachievementhas been.
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I cannot give the projected average, because it would depend on theactualachievement.
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There is so much to be done and the reward in terms of relief and hope andactualachievementis immeasurable.
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I want to bring that to the test ofactualachievementand accomplishment.
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How is theactualachievementof the working party to befitted in with the methods and structure used in determining salaries?
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This is anactualachievementin industrial agreement.
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Theactualachievementis 5,000.
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It is, of course, as he pointed out, a little too early for him to say anything aboutactualachievementwith regard to the campaign against slums.
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This directive takes an important step forward on the path to theactualachievementof the internal market, with regard to a highly important professional sector.
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