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spared no effort

spared no effort is the simple past of spare no effort.

Meaning of spare no effort

Verb

spare no effort (third-person singular simple present spares no effort, present participle sparing no effort, simple past and past participle spared no effort)

  1. (idiomatic) To do everything within one's powers to achieve something.
    • This reflects credit not only on the railway staffs concerned but on the various signalling firms, which have spared no effort to carry out research work, and test and apply, when feasible, every new idea.1951 April, T. S. Lascelles, “British Railway Signalling Since 1925”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 232

Questions about spared no effort

What is spared no effort the simple past of?
Spared no effort is the simple past of spare no effort.

Words near spared no effort in the dictionary

  1. spare-ribs
  2. spareable
  3. Sparean
  4. spared
  5. spared a thought for
  6. spared no effort
  7. spared no expense
  8. spared someone the details
  9. spared someone's blushes
  10. spareful
  11. spareless

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