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onnistua — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • avail verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  • manage verb To be in charge of running something, such as a business, team, or project.
  • Pan noun A wide, shallow metal container used for cooking food over heat.
  • perform verb To carry out an action or task.
  • succeed verb To achieve a desired goal or outcome.

Senses

onnistua is used for these senses in English:

  • avail (intransitive) To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
  • make shift (dated, transitive) To contrive; to invent a way of surmounting a difficulty.
  • pan (intransitive, with out, to pan out) To turn out well; to be successful.
  • perform (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.
  • pull off (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).
  • succeed (intransitive) To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).

avail — full definition

  1. verb To make use of an opportunity or resource, usually for one's own benefit.
  2. noun Use or benefit, especially in the phrase "to no avail," meaning without success.

manage — full definition

  1. verb To be in charge of running something, such as a business, team, or project.
  2. verb To succeed in doing something, especially something difficult.
  3. verb To handle or cope with a situation, resource, or problem.

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