0 physical or mental activity needed to achieve something:
[ + to infinitive ] If we could all make an effort to keep this office tidier it would help.
You can't expect to have any friends if you don't make the effort with people.
In their efforts to reduce crime the government expanded the police force.
He's jogging around the park every morning in an effort to get fit.
It takes a long time to prepare the dish but the results are so good that it's worth the effort.
Do you want to have a look at his exam paper? It's a fairly poor effort.
I'm exhausted all the time, and everything is a real effort.
1 physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or an attempt to do something:
2 a serious attempt to do something:
an effort to do sth This is part of an ongoing effort to develop the Asian debt market.
The guidelines require that companies make an effort to engender a culture of ethical compliance.
The new system has been introduced in an effort to improve customer care.
Ensuring the product is launched on time will be a team effort.
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.
3 physical or mental activity needed to achieve something, or energy used to do something:
A considerable amount of time and effort has gone into this exhibition.
Everyone ought to make the effort to vote.
It was a real team effort - everyone contributed something to the success of the project.
He's obviously making a special effort to be nice to me at the moment.
This section is meant to be a mutual effort.
This reuse permits the effort required to develop sets of transformations to be amortized over a large number of derivations.
Assisted by his pupils from the local school, he continued his efforts until 1933.
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