0 physical or mental activity needed to achieve something: --
I'm exhausted all the time, and everything is a real effort.
Do you want to have a look at his exam paper? It's a fairly poor effort.
It takes a long time to prepare the dish but the results are so good that it's worth the effort.
He's jogging around the park every morning in an effort to get fit.
In their efforts to reduce crime the government expanded the police force.
You can't expect to have any friends if you don't make the effort with people.
[ + to infinitive ] If we could all make an effort to keep this office tidier it would help.
1 physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or an attempt to do something: --
2 a serious attempt to do something: --
Over the past year, the combined efforts of the train companies has produced a 12% increase in passenger business and a 20% expansion of freight traffic.
Ensuring the product is launched on time will be a team effort.
The new system has been introduced in an effort to improve customer care.
The guidelines require that companies make an effort to engender a culture of ethical compliance.
an effort to do sth This is part of an ongoing effort to develop the Asian debt market.
3 physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or energy used to do something: --
It is thus not too early to contemplate other such collaborative efforts.
Trophoblasts would seem ideal targets for fetal cell sorting efforts because of their abundance at the fetal-maternal interface.
The lack of records and sufficient tracking for antiquities also hampers efforts to control the problem.
Unlike the case of tree planting, however, fallowing of food crop fields does not require labor effort and, hence, tends to weaken land rights.
I imagine myself in the coming decade celebrating and supporting others' efforts to do such things.
This misuses the effort the target article took to reason carefully.
The search took over five years of effort and co-operation by research, extension, growers and fabric manufacturers.
It would be part of an overall effort to change perceptions about women's needs, roles, and abilities.
