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concerted

[kuhn-sur-tid]

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adjective

contrived or arranged by agreement; planned or devised together: a concerted effort.

done or performed together or in cooperation: a concerted attack.

Music. arranged in parts for several voices or instruments.

Origin:
1710–20; concert (v.) + -ed²

Related forms

con·cert·ed·ly, adverb

con·cert·ed·ness, noun

un·con·cert·ed, adjective

un·con·cert·ed·ly, adverb

well-con·cert·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1, 2. united, joint, cooperative.

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Example Sentences

They make concerted efforts to provide learning experiences.

It is sensible to look for low-hanging fruit in the early stages of concerted efforts to achieve fundamental change.

What is needed is concerted reform on several fronts-monetary, fiscal and structural.

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They make concerted efforts to provide learning experiences.

It is sensible to look for low-hanging fruit in the early stages of concerted efforts to achieve fundamental change.

What is needed is concerted reform on several fronts-monetary, fiscal and structural.

Yet conservationists see hope, if there's concerted effort.

It's surprising that that they have not made a concerted effort to free themselves decades ago.

Thueme made a concerted effort to reuse and recycle as many elements as possible.

Recognition of how dependant our future is on a stable society…it doesn't happen without our concerted efforts.

The big story with street homelessness is that when cities make a concerted effort to reduce it, they succeed.

Make a concerted effort to look at your world askew.

There was the distant threat of disaster, and the knowledge that a concerted global response was required.

Concerted conservation efforts have been somewhat successful.

It needs concerted guidance if it is to reach its full potential.

But despite concerted efforts, nothing that really works much better has been found.

Traders who have been predicting a rally for the dollar ran up against the concerted force of the leading central banks last week.

Culture is difficult to change, but our leadership team is making a concerted effort to do so.

There are concerted efforts to draw some line in the sand.

Even concerted efforts to track and guide spacecraft in orbit are subject to some uncertainty in trajectory estimates.

The government panicked, staging a concerted show of force nationwide.

But that cannot happen without a concerted effort on the part of educators.

The priority is to reverse the downward spiral of despair through overwhelming and concerted action.

Various churches will put a stop to any concerted efforts to reduce population growth.

After this, she begins frequenting dive after dive, in a concerted effort to get herself attacked all over again.

In the beginning it was openly homophobcially based, but over time became a general, concerted attack upon me.

Only by a concerted effort to free the world of nuclear weapons could the terrifying trend be reversed.

Concerted efforts at influence and control lie at the core of cultic groups, programs, and relationships.

If their suspicions are correct, the group remains active in the country despite a concerted investigation and several arrests.

It will take the concerted efforts of decades of incompetant governance and entrenched interests to secure our decline.

Hence the importance of the second response: a concerted effort to reduce the implicit state guarantees.

It's a concerted attempt to seed the clouds with thinkers who are also doers.

The island's remoteness and a concerted effort by locals to.

However, the call is for a concerted effort specifically in the light of the present global economic downtrend.

Until there is a concerted campaign to shut down the sites they link to we'll see much of it continue.

The two governments seem to be making a concerted push to end the conflict, which flared into war months ago.

As a result, there is a concerted effort amongst security chiefs to find ways to measure their success.

So there will be no concerted effort to actually remove the existing chemicals from the environment.

In order to maintain a healthy professional life outside of your campus, you must make a concerted effort.

Only a concerted move to new transport and energy technologies will relieve the pressures.

The complaint also says no concerted effort is being made to find adoptive parents for many of the children.

Mandela stressed the importance of concerted international action.

Businesses need to make a concerted effort to reduce.

Putting that into everyday practice takes much thought and concerted effort.

The problem has significant commercial consequences and calls for a more concerted response from all affected parties.

The easy bit will be to harness that sense of urgency to produce concerted interest-rate cuts and government spending.

Langer's hard line against any concerted memorization seems to go a bit far, particularly when applied to medical students.

We need a concerted approach to repair our ecosystems.

But few face concerted political campaigns to have their shows.

Instead there should be a concerted attempt to develop.

It seems to me that there's been a concerted effort to draw attention away from the numbers you mention.

But a mixture of popular disgust and concerted policing appears to have taken the romance out of violent radicalism.

But thanks to myopic politicians whose concerted efforts have thwarted out this major policy initiative.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun

a public musical performance in which a number of singers or instrumentalists, or both, participate.

a public performance, usually by an individual singer, instrumentalist, or the like; recital: The violinist has given concerts all over the world.

agreement of two or more individuals in a design or plan; combined action; accord or harmony: His plan was greeted with a concert of abuse.

adjective

designed or intended for concerts: concert hall.

performed at concerts: concert music.

performing or capable of performing at concerts: a concert pianist.

verb (used with object)

to contrive or arrange by agreement: They were able to concert a settlement of their differences.

to plan; devise: A program of action was concerted at the meeting.

verb (used without object)

to plan or act together.

Idiom

10.

in concert, together; jointly: to act in concert.

Origin:
1595–1605; (noun) < French < Italian concerto; see concerto; (v.) < French concerter < Italian concertare to organize, arrange by mutual agreement, perhaps parasynthetically from con with + certo certain; Latin concertāre (see concertation) is remote in sense

Related forms

post·con·cert, adjective

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Collins

World English Dictionary

concerted (kənˈsɜːtɪd)

—*adj*
1.	mutually contrived, planned, or arranged; combined (esp in the phrases concerted action, concerted effort)
2.	music arranged in parts for a group of singers or players

con'certedly

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

concert

1665, from Fr., from It. concerto "concert, harmony," from concertare "bring into agreement," in L. "to contend, contest," from com- "with" + certare "to contend, strive," freq. of certus, var. pp. of cernere "separate, decide" (see crisis). Before the word entered Eng.,

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meaning shifted from "to strive against" to "to strive alongside." But Klein considers this too much of a stretch and suggests L. concentare "to sing together" (from con- + cantare "to sing") as the source of the It. word. Sense of "public musical performance" is 1689. Concerto was borrowed 1730 directly from It. as a musical term.

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