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- Find 75 different ways to say EFFORT, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com.
- 'Effort' is singular and refers to the act of trying to do something, while 'efforts' is plural and refers to the combined actions or attempts made to achieve a goal.
- The plural form of effort; more than one (kind of) effort. The efforts of many people were needed to build the library.
- Their efforts have helped impact approximately 111,000 people. ... His efforts were futile as he could not free his arm from the 800 lb (360 kg) chockstone.
- EFFORT + VERB go into A lot of effort went into making the costumes. PREP. with/without ~ This can be done quickly and with very little effort.
- "laborious attempt, strenuous exertion," from French effort, from Old French esforz… See origin and meaning of effort.
- EFFORT meaning: 1 : work done by the mind or body energy used to do something; 2 : a serious attempt to do something often followed by to + verb.
- You need to focus your efforts on critical areas first. We decided to concentrate our efforts on the home study market. to coordinate/redouble your efforts.
- Synonyms for the word efforts are attempts, endeavors, and striving. Striving means to make an effort to achieve something.