Definitions for efforts
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1. efforts

   Plural noun of effort.

   His efforts to contribute to his community where noted as he continued to motivate the local youth in football and other sports.

   Submitted by MaryC on March 30, 2016  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'efforts' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1816

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'efforts' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3924

How to pronounce efforts?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of efforts in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of efforts in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of efforts in a Sentence

1. Louis Farrakhan:

   It was Mrs. Sanger who advocated population control of black and poor people, in a 1939 letter, Margaret Sanger wrote about getting the black preachers to help with Margaret Sanger efforts. Margaret Sanger said, ‘ we don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. ’ … And when Bill Clinton received the award, [ Margaret Sanger said ] I admire Margaret Sanger enormously. Margaret Sanger courage. Margaret Sanger tenacity. Margaret Sanger vision. ’ Now they have to admit that the war on drugs was a war on black people.

2. The CEO:

   As part of World Cup organizers efforts, World Cup organizers country is preparing a comprehensive security strategy, it has been serious from the very start, it has been taken very seriously by all appropriate government agencies. I don’t think that it could be any more serious. The threats have always been taken into account.

3. Donald Yee:

   It's going to be nearly impossible to eliminate mosquitoes of any species, given that doing so requires coordinated efforts of governments, scientists, and the public, with very few exceptions in human history, humans just have not been very good at eliminating mosquitoes, even for short periods of time.

4. Human Services Commissioner Mary Mayhew:

   The feds objective in coming to Maine was nothing more than an attempt to undermine our ongoing efforts to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in welfare programs.

5. Zahra Pashaei:

   The Blue Girl and her stories did help. Of course, efforts by women activists and feminists were very effective, we are happy anyway and hope this will continue, not just in national team matches.

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