Meaning of best efforts | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.
   plural, plural-normally
2. An effort to sell securities without a firm underwriting.
   plural, plural-normally
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see best, efforts.
   plural, plural-normally

Examples

“The first paper plane from the stands was cheered onto the fringes of the pitch in the 19th minute and it was certainly a sleepy start, despite the best efforts of Elliot Anderson and Morgan Rogers to inject a bit of tempo.”

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