joint effort

collocation in English

meaningsofjointandeffort

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joint
adjective
uk
/dʒɔɪnt/
us
/dʒɔɪnt/
belonging to or shared between two or ...
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effort
noun
uk
/ˈef.ət/
us
/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofjointandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofjoint effort

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It took three years to complete and (to quote its own website) 'was ajointeffortof a large number of participants, organizations and individuals'.
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Repairs made on the farm were ajointeffortby landlord and tenant.
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If a memorial contained more than one proposal, the review could turn into an elaboratejointeffort.
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Addressing these questions requires ajointeffortfrom statisticians, mathematicians and bioscientists.
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The introduction of these measures would require ajointeffortby parents, educational authorities, employers, trade unions and the public in general.
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Such ajointeffortwould, she argues, be the only way to ensure that consumers get balanced information of high quality about the effects and adverse effects of medicines.
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We are ready and anxious to work with industry in ajointeffortto cut out dead wood and to raise efficiency.
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This is why ajointeffortis required involving all countries.
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The work that we are presenting here today represents a trulyjointeffort, and we hope that it will be adopted here too.
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It requires ajointeffortto provide the means for achieving such an end.
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It is not only about drinking water, but about water in general as a limited resource which must be protected by ajointeffort.
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Ajointeffortis required, aimed at increasing knowledge and prevention, in order to make children aware.
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Let me stress, however, that the responsibility for the establishment of a constructive framework for engagement is ajointeffort.
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Naturally, this is not just the effort of the country in isolation, which needs ajointeffortfrom the euro area.
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Philips was known to be examining the prospects of such a factory, and ajointeffortwas made to bring it to the west midlands.
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There seems to be this contradiction of ajointeffortat the lower and intermediate levels, but the old arrangements at the top.
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We must encourage enterprise, but our aim should be to give to all a fair share of the result ofjointeffort.
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This claim is often made about hospitals especially, because they are run jointly by administrators, doctors and nurses in a sort ofjointeffort.
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This has been a very usefuljointeffort.
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This is ajointeffort, but it is not a matter of management and unions vying with each other, or working together in doing it.
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