accomplishments

Noun

accomplishment (countable and uncountable, plural accomplishments)

1. The act of accomplishing; completion; fulfilment.
   • the accomplishment of an enterprise, of a prophecy, etc
2. That which completes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training.
   • I’ll make a proof how I advance in / My new accomplishment of dancing.1763, Charles Churchill, The Ghost, Book III
3. Something accomplished; an achievement.
   • Increasing sales by 20% in the last quarter was seen as a major accomplishment for the business.
4. The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time until a natural end point.
   • Thus it is attested that some children have taken an accomplishment verb like disappear, which does not have a causative counterpart, and used it as a causative accomplishment in sentences like He disappeared it, i.e. ‘He made it disappear.’1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, pages 183-84