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best efforts

best efforts noun: an assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.

Noun

best efforts pl (normally plural, singular best effort)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) An assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.
  2. (plural, plural-normally) An effort to sell securities without a firm underwriting.
  3. (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

Forms of best efforts

singularbest effort
alternative formbest endeavors

Questions about best efforts

What does best efforts mean?
Best efforts means an assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.
What part of speech is best efforts?
Best efforts is a noun.

Words near best efforts in the dictionary

  1. best boy
  2. best boys
  3. best built
  4. best case scenario
  5. best case scenarios
  6. best efforts
  7. best end
  8. best ends
  9. best evidence rule
  10. best for someone
  11. best for you

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