bring off

1. 1.

   be successful; achieve a goal

   “She succeeded in persuading us all”

   “I managed to carry the box upstairs”

   “She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it”

   “The pianist negociated the difficult runs”

   Synonymspull offnegociatecarry offmanage

   Broadersucceed

Questions about bring off

What does bring off mean?

bring off means "be successful; achieve a goal".

What is another word for bring off?

Close synonyms include pull off, negociate, carry off, manage. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bring off a common word?

bring off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.