Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Planned or accomplished together; combined.
- adjective Music Arranged in parts for voices or instruments.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mutually agreed upon, contrived, or planned.
- Brought into connection or relation; connected by a plan.
- In music, arranged in parts for several voices or instruments, as a trio, a quartet, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on.
- adjective (Mus.) a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
concert . - adjective Performed through a
concert of effort; done byagreement or incombination . - adjective music Having separate parts for
voices andinstruments
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective involving the joint activity of two or more
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Examples
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They wrote today to Bill Lan Lee, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, and asked him to conduct a federal investigation into what they call the concerted effort to undermine the right to vote -- Stephen.
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HRW also decried what it called a concerted attack on the International Criminal Court
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He said the move was staged by Democrats to avoid investigating what he called a concerted effort by Perdue to circumvent the laws so the campaign could hide flights offered by donors who had already exceeded the $4,000 maximum donation per election.
WCNC - News - World 2010
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HRW also decried what it called a concerted attack on the International Criminal Court
Dose.ca Music briefs Sebastian Smith, Agence France-Presse 2010
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Clearly countering entrenched acceptance of male violence against women will take long term concerted effort.
Feminist Philosophy of Law Smith, Patricia 2009
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Hundreds of millions can be spent in concerted action for the cause of destruction.
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The Tamils, who appeared to take no joy in choosing between two men who have killed tens of thousands of their neighbours, surprised many observers by turning strongly to Gen. Fonseka in what some describe as a concerted act of revenge for the abuse and segregation meted out by the government after the war.
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This was a long term concerted effort of many people of various minds concerning the life of the church.
PRELUDIUM 2009
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a US journalist, accusing the government of violating international and local laws in doing so and demanding an end to what it called a concerted "assault on freedom."
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So what we learn from your comments is that, if you want to eliminate workers’ legal right to engage in concerted activity and to form unions … then you oppose Employee Free Choice.
Matthew Yglesias » Economists for an Employee Free Choice Act 2009
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