effectiveness

Definitions

1. The property of being effective, of achieving results
2. The property of being effective, of achieving results.
   countable, uncountable
3. Capacity to act the effect or aim expected.
4. The capacity or potential for achieving results
5. A soldier or a piece of military equipment that is ready for combat.
6. The capacity or potential for achieving results.
   countable, uncountable
7. The degree to which something achieves results
8. The power or capacity to produce a desired result:effect, effectuality, effectualness, efficaciousness, efficacy, efficiency, influence, potency.
9. The degree to which something achieves results.
   countable, uncountable
10. eficacia, efectividad.
11. Having an intended or expected effect.
12. Operative; in effect: The law is effective immediately.
13. Existing in fact; actual: a decline in the effective demand.
14. Prepared for use or action, especially in combat.
15. n (= successfulness) → Wirksamkeit f; (of strategy, government, politician) → Effektivität f
    n

Equivalents

Examples

“The effectiveness of the drug was well established.”

“The problem with these precedents is that the Security Council did not authorize intervention in Syria, and an intervention there will thus harm⟳, not help⟳, the Council’s credibility and effectiveness.”

“He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.”

“United were having more possession but a sign⟳ of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force⟳ Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.”

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