thrive

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to achieve something aimed for
succeedIf you work hard, you'll succeed.
thriveUniversity is a place where she will thrive.
flourishHe tried journalism, but flourished as a novelist.
triumphThe Labour Party triumphed in the election.
bring something offShe's one of the few singers who can bring off such a difficult piece of music.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Success & failure in business
administration
axe
bankrupt
bankruptcy
be running on fumesidiom
belly
charter
dying
fold
go belly upidiom
go darkidiom
go into administration
go to the wallidiom
growth hacker
receiver
shut up shopidiom
sinking shipidiom
soft launch
spin something off
start (something) up

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Succeeding, achieving and fulfilling

prosper | American Dictionary

prosper
verb[ I ]
us/ˈprɑs·pər/
to be successful, esp. financially:
As the company prospered, we prospered.

prosperity

noun[ U ]us/prɑˈsper·ɪ·t̬i/
a period of increasing prosperity

prosperous

adjectiveus/ˈprɑs·pər·əs/
a prosperous business

prosper | Business English

prosper
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈprɒspər/us
to be or become successful, especially financially:
We aim to create a climate in which all small businesses can prosper.

Examples of prosper

prosper
Much the same can be said of identifying those particular factors which cause some clusters to prosper and others to stagnate or wither away.
The fittest survive and prosper (by and large) - but anything at all may be the decisive factor.
As behaviorism prospered, the scientific investigation of mental states was discouraged.
Intuitively we expect a few chains to flourish, and in our model the chains which prosper will depend on nonuniformities in initial data.
Under these conditions it is hardly surprising that national associations have prospered only when it suited the specific interest of business or the administration.
For many institutions it is no longer a question of prospering but surviving.
It is likely that weaving prospered and partly relocated towards areas within easy reach of the army contractors.
Good strategies thus survive and prosper while bad strategies decline and go extinct.
On the other hand, country towns and cottage industries did not really prosper in the rural districts of the north-east.
Meanwhile, private commercial cemeteries prospered on the outskirts of major metropolitan areas even as the old churchyards were still being used.
These institutions differed in their theological ethos and prospered for varying lengths of time.
These alternative institutions prospered because official institutions were no longer recognised as legitimate.
After all, the lord is now a rich man; his voyages must have prospered.
In the sixteenth century the reformation had prospered.
She won respect for her medical skill and prospered as an entrepreneur until the declaration of peace rendered her stock obsolete, bankrupting her.
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