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best efforts en · NOUN
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(plural, plural-normally) An assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.
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(plural, plural-normally) An effort to sell securities without a firm underwriting.
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(plural, plural-normally) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see best, efforts.
The first paper plane from the stands was cheered onto the fringes of the pitch in the 19th minute and it was certainly a sleepy start, despite the best efforts of Elliot Anderson and Morgan Rogers to inject a bit of tempo.
2025 November 13, David Hytner, “Saka and Eze strikes sink Serbia as England maintain perfect World Cup qualifying record”, in The Guardian:
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