endeavor

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But finding "smart nerds" is an almost fruitless endeavor as well.

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Quick take

a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"

noun

earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

verb

attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for endeavor.

noun

a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness); "he had doubts about the whole enterprise"

noun

earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something; "made an effort to cover all the reading material"; "wished him luck in his endeavor"; "she gave it a good try"

See also: attempt, effort, endeavour, try

verb

attempt by employing effort; "we endeavor to make our customers happy"

Example sentences

But finding "smart nerds" is an almost fruitless endeavor as well.

Given that we are gaining some ground, it's clearly not a useless endeavor, it's just an extremely difficult one.

For years I listened to users complain whenever I removed something they were used to for the improvement of the whole endeavor.

A fun endeavor for sure and I like that he measured before & after results for comparison, but I'm not convinced that he made a real improvement.

Taking a photo is a creative endeavor, not necessarily an effort to flawlessly recreate how something actually appears to the human eye.

To deal with this issue, the judge got down to fundamentals, with the key language found at page 35 of the opinion: "Much of Oracles evidence at trial went to show that the design of methods in an API was a creative endeavor.

"If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty.