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best efforts

noun

Definitions

  1. An assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.

  2. An effort to sell securities without a firm underwriting.

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA