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effort
[ ef-ert ]
noun
- exertion of physical or mental power:
It will take great effort to achieve victory.
- an earnest or strenuous attempt:
an effort to keep to the schedule.
- something done by exertion or hard work:
I thought it would be easy, but it was an effort.
- an achievement, as in literature or art:
The painting is one of his finest efforts.
- the amount of exertion expended for a specified purpose:
the war effort.
- Chiefly British.
- an organized community drive or achievement.
- a fund-raising drive.
- Mechanics. the force or energy that is applied to a machine for the accomplishment of useful work.
effort
/ ˈɛfət /
noun
- physical or mental exertion, usually considerable when unqualified
the rock was moved with effort
- a determined attempt
our effort to save him failed
- achievement; creation
a great literary effort
- physics an applied force acting against inertia
effort
/ ĕf′ərt /
- Force applied against inertia.
- The force needed by a machine in order to accomplish work on a load.
- Compare load
Derived Forms
- ˈeffortful, adjective
Other Words From
- counter·effort noun
- over·effort noun
- pre·effort noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of effort1
Idioms and Phrases
see all out (effort) ; last-ditch effort .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
That’s a view that most nonreligious Americans reject, which is likely a part of the reason that their support for Biden is so high, despite the campaign’s minimal outreach efforts.
The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency.
This was part of a larger effort by Kroc and former McDonald’s chairman Fred Turner to identify entrepreneurs who were commercially minded and driven to succeed.
A who’s who of celebrities plans to boycott Instagram tomorrow in an effort to pressure its parent company, Facebook to do a better job of controlling violence, racism, and hate across its services.
My Bay Area neighborhood, on the other hand, has benefited from consistent investment in efforts to defend it against the ravages of climate change.
As part of that effort, Said received weapons training for months, sources told The Daily Beast.
The effort to sterilize his image first began when Epstein hired Los Angeles-based spin doctors Sitrick Co.
The U.S. military just unveiled a new effort to get Iraqis ready to battle ISIS.
Where the U.S. once sought to train several divisions worth, the latest effort is for just 3,000 troops.
Police Superintendent Michael Harrison said the decline was a result of an effort to decrease gang violence.
The remaining one struggled for another half-minute, and flared up in one last, desperate effort.
He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had made no effort whatever to stop the thief.
I shall therefore, in my effort to prove the Bible fallible, quote almost wholly from Christian critics.
To make the effort of articulation a vital impulse in response to a mental concept,—this is the object sought.
Make a personal appeal to your men and Godley's to make a supreme effort to hold their ground.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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