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/kənsˈərtəd/ /kənsˈərtɪd/ Listen

verb

Concert v. t. (past & past part. concerted; pres. part. concerting)

To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. "It was concerted to begin the siege in March."

To plan; to devise; to arrange. "A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan... the campaign."

Concert v. i. To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans. "The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot."

adjective

Concerted adj. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.

Concerted piece (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.

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Etymology of 'Concerted'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Concerted" Quotes from Famous Books

... was so skillful in his negotiations with the French court that in 1756 he induced it, in spite of its two hundred years of hostility to the house of Hapsburg, to enter into an alliance with Austria against Prussia. Russia, Sweden, and Saxony also agreed to join in a concerted attack on Prussia. Their armies, coming as they did from every point of the compass, threatened the complete annihilation of Austria's rival. It seemed as if the new kingdom of Prussia might disappear altogether from the map ...

— An Introduction to the History of Western Europe • James Harvey Robinson

... impossibility that a majority of an unorganized class should unite in concerted demand for a right, a duty, which ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... and no longer regard the oracles which emanate from a professional priesthood, whose dicta have so often tended to darken the simple counsels of truth! To set the question of pulsations in the zodial light, as well as in the tails of comets, at rest, only requires previously concerted observations, in places not very widely apart; for it is scarcely possible, that atmospheric conditions should produce simultaneous pulsations in two distant places. If the pulsations are found to be simultaneous, ...

— Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms - Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence • T. Bassnett

... maintenance of irrigation works, and a central control to secure fair distribution of the water to the fields of the inhabitants. A stimulus to progress is found in the presence of a problem, perennial as the yearly threatenings of the Hoangho, which demands the application of human intelligence and concerted labor for its solution. Additional arable land for the growing population can be secured only by the wider distribution of the fructifying water; this in turn depends upon corporate effort wisely directed ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple

... the ten-hour day customary throughout the country was not long in coming back to life. In March, 1840, an executive order of President Van Buren declaring ten hours to be the working day for laborers and mechanics in government employ forced the issue upon private employers. The earliest concerted action, it would seem, arose in New England, where the New England Workingmen's Association, later called the Labor Reform League, carried on the crusade. In 1845 a committee appointed by the Massachusetts Legislature to investigate labor conditions affords the first instance on record of an ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

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