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Effort   /ˈɛfərt/   Listen
Effort

noun
1.
Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something.  Synonyms: attempt, endeavor, endeavour, try.  "Wished him luck in his endeavor" , "She gave it a good try"
2.
Use of physical or mental energy; hard work.  Synonyms: elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail.  "They managed only with great exertion"
3.
A notable achievement.  Synonyms: exploit, feat.  "The book was her finest effort"
4.
A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.  Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement.  "They worked in the cause of world peace" , "The team was ready for a drive toward the pennant" , "The movement to end slavery" , "Contributed to the war effort"



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... sing in public, for fear they might want me to start an opera company," remarked the Shaggy Man, who was pleased to know his effort was appreciated. "Voice, just now, is a little out of ...
— The Patchwork Girl of Oz • L. Frank Baum

... vain effort, she ceased to endeavor, and in a little while was herself being molded by the music unconsciously received to the further understanding of it. It wrought in her mind pictures, not thoughts. It is possible, however, my later knowledge ...
— Mary Marston • George MacDonald

... with inadequate supplies of water and other natural resources such as oil. Debt, poverty, and unemployment are fundamental problems, but King ABDALLAH since assuming the throne in 1999 has undertaken some broad economic reforms in a long-term effort to improve living standards. Amman in the past three years has worked closely with the IMF, practiced careful monetary policy, and made significant headway with privatization. The government also has ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... his reign (B.C. 1481) was that in which the Egyptian Pharaoh made his first determined effort to subdue Canaan. Gaza was occupied without much difficulty, and in the following year, on the fifth day of the month Pakhons, he set out from it, and eleven days later encamped at Ihem. There he learned that the confederated Canaanitish army, under the command of the king of Kadesh on the Orontes, ...
— Patriarchal Palestine • Archibald Henry Sayce

... Miss Gena Branscombe: "Inexhaustible buoyancy, a superlative emotional wealth, and wholly singular gift of musical intuition are the qualities which have shaped the composer's musical personality (without much effort of the imagination we might say that they are the qualities that shaped Beethoven's musical personality).... Her impatient melodies leap and dash with youthful life, while her accompaniments abound in harmonic hairbreadth escapes." Before he became acquainted with the later French idiom ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten


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