collective effort
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcollectiveandeffort
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collective
adjective[before noun]
uk/kəˈlek.tɪv/us/kəˈlek.tɪv/
of or shared by every member of a group ...
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effort
noun
uk/ˈef.ət/us/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofcollectiveandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofcollective effort
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While all the essays in this collection are worthwhile in their own right, the question remains about the precise topic of thiscollectiveeffort.
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Thecollectiveeffortto mitigate these diverse disadvantages will come from the same inevitably limited budgets.
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The biography was not only to deliver a new historiographic basis for the psychoanalytic collective: tacitly, the book itself was also acollectiveeffort.
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For example, it is easy to envision the person high in agreeableness joining acollectiveeffortsuch as a petition drive.
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Their bellies grumbling, the village mounts acollectiveeffortto return the baker's wife to her conjugal duty.
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It is an impressivecollectiveeffort, fully alive to the unending ramifications of the subject.
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I leave it to you whether this is worth thecollectiveeffort.
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Such persons conceive of their action as constitutive of thecollectiveeffort; they regard their agency primarily in inclusive terms.
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The system of social control in force, weak as it is, cannot promote and control acollectiveeffortlike that required for local management.
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Despite limited current benefits received by community members, the woodlots contribute substantially to community wealth, increasing members' willingness to providecollectiveeffortto manage the woodlots.
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For such a protractedcollectiveeffortat elucidating the fundamental building blocks of music to have achieved so little, is a matter for ear nest reflection.
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One of the values of a handbook like this is to show how different approaches hang together and are part of acollectiveeffortto disentangle the mystery of meaning.
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Gradually, then, a civic obligation associated with honor, duty, andcollectiveeffortfaded and became replaced with one that highlights government's extractive role and individual obligations to contribute resources.
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What coherence do we have if we call for acollectiveeffortbut then allow countries to face difficulties on their own?
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Firstly, we need a determined,collectiveeffortto deliver on the agreed budgetary commitments.
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Is defence better achieved by acollectiveeffortrather than by individual efforts being brought together?
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We envisage that a sustained andcollectiveefforton the part of many nations will be necessary.
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All that it has done is to demonstrate that the theory ofcollectiveeffortand the principle of collective defence do not exist.
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We have consistently stressed the need forcollectiveeffortand communal endeavour.
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I suggest to him that in order to achieve the positive peace, a vigorouscollectiveeffortamong all nations is still necessary in the future.
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