realizationnoun
UK usually realisation uk/ˌrɪə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌriː.ə.ləˈzeɪ.ʃən/realization noun (BECOMING AWARE)
C1 [ C usually singular ] the fact or moment of starting to understand a situation:
[ + that ] The realization was dawning that this was a major disaster.
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Understanding and comprehending
- apprehend
- apprehension
- at your fingertips idiom
- attune
- bear in on/upon
- common
- fathom
- feel
- fingertip
- hit
- make sth/sb of sth/sb
- make sth/sb out
- mind
- picture
- plumb
- read between the lines idiom
- reading
- realize
- take sth in
- twig
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realization noun (ACHIEVEMENT)
C2 [ U ] the act or moment of achieving something you planned to do or hoped for:
To win the Olympic gold medal was the realization of his life's dream.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuate
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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realization noun (MONEY)
[ U ] specialized finance & economics the act of getting money by selling something:
Even the realization of all his assets would not be enough to prevent financial ruin.
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Selling
- auction
- bake sale
- bundle
- chain of production
- divest
- export
- package
- pile it high and sell it cheap idiom
- price yourself out of the market idiom
- privatize
- purvey
- realizable
- realize
- serve
- shift
- telesales
- tout
- undercharge
- unsold
- upsell
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