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endeavors

[en-dev-er]

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verb (used without object)

to exert oneself to do or effect something; make an effort; strive: We must constantly endeavor if we are to succeed.

verb (used with object)

to attempt; try: He endeavors to keep things neat in his apartment.

Archaic. to attempt to achieve or gain.

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noun

a strenuous effort; attempt.

Also, especially British, en·deav·our.

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English endeveren, from the phrase putten in devoir to make an effort, assume responsibility; compare Anglo-French se mettre en deveir. See en-¹, devoir

Related forms

en·deav·or·er; especially British, en·deav·our·er, noun

pre·en·deav·or, noun

Synonyms
1, 2. See try. 4. See effort.

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Most of these endeavors begin in the spring, making an already busy time of year even more hectic.

Appropriate scholarship and service endeavors are expected.

Government is, however, an excellent incubator for risky technology and endeavors that private industry shies away from.

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Most of these endeavors begin in the spring, making an already busy time of year even more hectic.

Appropriate scholarship and service endeavors are expected.

Government is, however, an excellent incubator for risky technology and endeavors that private industry shies away from.

Such rules would apply to businesses looking to establish hotels, mining operations, and other commercial endeavors on the moon.

The same holds true for other professional endeavors inclusive of law, the military, and politics.

Much success to you with your present and future endeavors.

Books are creative endeavors as individual and singular as any work of art.

More and more banks are specializing in providing seed money for green endeavors.

She played on a women's varsity sports team and was extremely disciplined in all her endeavors.

No more money needs to be spent on useless endeavors.

Most define the notion as advancing human endeavors without diminishing prospects for future generations.

Our understanding of the universe continues to increase through our scientific endeavors.

China is training more scientists and engineers and is generously funding their research endeavors.

He has a lifetime of philanthropic endeavors and was dedicated to many causes.

Higher education is all about knowledge, ideas, and creative endeavors and their creation and dissemination.

Endeavors such as space exploration simply inspire people and give them something to dream about.

The selection committee endeavors to have funding decisions made within ten weeks of application submission.

Drug companies are less likely to fund endeavors without some positive indication to begin with.

So maybe that explains why the agency opted to enlist some awesomely bad superhero acronyms to characterize the way-out endeavors.

Taiwan endeavors to maintain peace and stability across the strait.

Foreign-language educators must promote the marketability and indeed, usefulness, of our endeavors.

The people chosen as subjects cover a wide diversity of endeavors and achievements.

Keeping you dryer and more comfortable during your day endeavors.

Never the less, there are certainly more pressing and legitemate scientific endeavors in the world.

It's an admirable goal, but not all game developers see the abandonware sites as philanthropic endeavors.

Only the memory remains, of shared experiences, endeavors undertaken together and perhaps.

Careers and fields are mutually altered by such endeavors.

We might ask why home-schooling, dentistry, and optometry seem to be such effective and affordable endeavors.

Meanwhile the floating top pocket extends to accommodate gear intensive endeavors.

One can make the same statement about any profession, and balance is desirable in all endeavors.

The day pack holds quite a bit, but it's aimed more at volume and athletic endeavors.

She will write regular opinon pieces about the natural world, human endeavors and the intersection between the two.

Ludeman has already considered these two organizations and perhaps they will be a partner in future endeavors.

All the money and regulations creating and seeking rents and taxes camouflage as purposeful and noble endeavors.

With ever urgent needs for education and infrastructure, it's easy to dismiss such endeavors as a luxury.

It endeavors to keep people from making unsubstantiated claims.

It's hard to consider these games as primarily artistic endeavors.

Moreover, by working with the military, our intellectual endeavors can have a new sense of urgency and purpose.

These both seem to be relatively pointless endeavors.

Use this success as a platform to spread the cost of such endeavors.

Successful interdisciplinary endeavors are thus transitional.

Klorotes fears this kind of behavior will compromise his future endeavors.

It is as all such endeavors exactly contrary to science.

My best wishes to the trio for their future endeavors.

Implementation of low cost endeavors of such gigantic proportions has rarely been undertaken anywhere before.

Research and university teaching are no longer individual endeavors.

It is not for lightweights that quit partway through difficult endeavors.

They are good generic employees yet tend to be culturally parochial which can make them one dimensional in complex endeavors.

Almost all the remittances are for extended family supports and not for entrepreneurial endeavors.

Just as the world adjusts for changes in various human endeavors including work nature, retirement age should not be an exemption.

Many of his early endeavors became clouded by controversy, however, because of his pronouncements on race.

Few other endeavors would allow the novice such immediate success.

The true economic returns from both endeavors were long-run returns.

But to declare such sporting endeavors scientific research is an unfortunate misinterpretation of reality.

The simplest of endeavors to undertake is finding fault with.

He examined his patriotic endeavors and his treacherous actions too.

His devotion to better the lives of working men and women will continue to guide us in our endeavors.

In the professional realm, interviews are notoriously slippery endeavors.

In the meantime, certain commercial endeavors got established in the valley and metastasized.

Just by lengthening the time horizon, you can engage in endeavors that you could never otherwise.

His dedication to charitable endeavors will always be remembered.

His success enabled him to support and fund several charitable endeavors.

We wish you well with your future endeavors in our discipline.

That's the sort of real-life experience the new antidrug initiative endeavors to take into account.

His corporate endeavors also reflected an altruistic and expansive approach to product development and marketing.

They are simply money making endeavors without real standards.

The kind of spirit and moral fiber that produced such endeavors is gone from the human soul.

His memory will live on for eternity in the endeavors of his students.

It's wrong that once again society sends a loud message that men's endeavors are more important than those of women.

Commitment to our beliefs and endeavors is crucial, but so is the ability to restructure, regroup and alter our view.

But those propaganda endeavors are becoming less and less effective.

In this drama, a hard-working adolescent endeavors to help out his financially struggling family.

Miriam brought wisdom, elegance and grace to all her endeavors.

Deeply generous of his time and talents, he served as trustee and director of several major civic and philanthropic endeavors.

His achievements and philanthropic endeavors over the long years of his life were legendary.

He wants to win an art contest or get a job, but both endeavors prove difficult.

To ensure that the ball and chains of society don't impede the endeavors in the making.

Meanwhile, a beautiful slave falls for the mesmerized engineer and endeavors to help him escape.

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Word Origin & History

endeavor

early 15c., lit. "in duty," from phrase put (oneself) in dever "make it one's duty" (a partial translation of O.Fr. mettre en deveir "put in duty"), from O.Fr. dever "duty," from L. debere "to owe" (see debt). One's endeavors meaning one's "utmost effort" is from late 15c.

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Related: Endeavored; endeavoring.

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