| 单词 | concerted |
| 释义 | concerted (once / 1890 pages) adj If you and your friends launch into singing “Old MacDonald” loudly together, in the middle of the public library, you will all have made a concerted, or cooperative, effort to annoy lots of people. Concerted is often used to describe a group effort to achieve a particular goal. As you may have guessed, concerted comes from the word concert. While a concert can be defined as "a group of musicians playing cooperatively," concert can also designate other types of cooperative behavior. If a group of people do anything together — from singing an annoying song to throwing library books at agreed-upon targets — they are acting in concert, or in a concerted manner. WORD FAMILYconcerted: concertedly, preconcerted+/concert: concerted, concerting, concertise, concertize, concerts/concertize: concertized, concertizing/preconcerted: preconcertedly USAGE EXAMPLESAdministration officials said Friday that the latest “removal” figures reflect a concerted policy shift to target convicted criminals over others. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) There was, however, concerted resistance to the plans even from normally supportive states, which pared it back to 3%. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) Clinton allies are already “bending the storyline in their favor through a concerted media offensive” to undermine President-elect Donald Trump says U.S. Washington Times(Dec 21, 2016) adj involving the joint activity of two or more concerted action Syn conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative joint united or combined |
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