success story
Definition of success story
1 : a story of a person who rises to fortune, acclaim, or brilliant achievement In the world of finance, his is a great success story.
2 : someone or something that has achieved a goal I am one of the diet clinic's success stories.
3 : someone or something that has achieved wealth, respect, or fame That company is one of this area's biggest success stories.
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: outcome, result
: degree or measure of succeeding
: favorable or desired outcome
: history
: history
: an account of incidents or events
: to narrate or describe in story
: to adorn with a story or a scene from history
: the space in a building between two adjacent floor levels or between a floor and the roof
: a set of rooms in such a space
: a unit of measure equal to the height of the story of a building
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