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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
concerted
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a concerted effort (=involving a lot of different actions, or a lot of people working together)
▪ It will take a concerted effort to change the culture of binge-drinking in the country.
a deliberate/concerted campaign (=done by people in a determined way)
▪ There was a concerted campaign to attract more women into the armed forces.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
▪ Against concerted action by local authorities the individual librarian would be fighting a very hard and probably losing battle.
▪ However, contrasts in personal style between chairmen inhibited concerted action on some matters and helped Citrine.
▪ I simply do not have the manpower to make arrests in the teeth of such concerted action.
▪ But if the nation's children are to get the education they deserve, concerted action may be needed.
▪ Only concerted action and investigation by the government can right these tragic injustices that continue to occur.
▪ Alternatively, an apparent readiness to change may conceal an intention to resist in concerted action with others.
attack
▪ The burnished copper shone bravely, having only the previous night survived unscathed a particularly concerted attack upon its person.
▪ Leicester, scoring only once more despite concerted attacks, were left to ponder on what might have been.
attempt
▪ The initiative has also made concerted attempts to tackle these problems.
▪ Thus together they amount to a concerted attempt to investigate whether or not any form of vertical behaviour is to be allowed.
▪ The Movement recognised this, as it also recognised that administrative pressures were working against a concerted attempt to preserve religious unity.
campaign
▪ Coun Ord, a member of Sedgefield District Council, has called for a concerted campaign to get the proportional representation across.
effort
▪ She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
▪ Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
▪ I feel that I should make a more concerted effort to leave my profession and find a new and more satisfying career.
▪ This change is part of a concerted effort to raise our profile with our international customers.
▪ Meanwhile, ministers rallied in a concerted effort to denounce rumours of a rift between Mr Lawson and Margaret Thatcher.
▪ With one concerted effort, they heaved the boar out of the water and up on to the bank.
▪ These techniques are not freely available everywhere, but with concerted effort they could be.
▪ A global concerted effort is required to avert a global health crisis.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Against concerted action by local authorities the individual librarian would be fighting a very hard and probably losing battle.
▪ But the most concerted challenge was manifest in struggles waged by the unemployed around the poor law.
▪ By October 1989, therefore, the time was right for a concerted diplomatic initiative against drift-net fishing.
▪ She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
▪ The Government reiterated its intention to introduce a prohibition on anti-competitive agreements and concerted practices.
▪ There should be a concerted programme to change the knife-carrying ethos in schools.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concerted

Concert \Con*cert"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Concerted; p. pr. & vb. n. Concerting.] [F. concerter, It. concertare, conertare, prob. from L. consertus, p. p. of conserere to join together; con- + serere to join together, influenced by concertare to contend; con- + centare to strive; properly, to try to decide; fr. cernere to distinguish. See Series, and cf. Concern.]

  1. To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.

    It was concerted to begin the siege in March.
    --Bp. Burnet.

  2. To plan; to devise; to arrange.

    A commander had more trouble to concert his defense before the people than to plan . . . the campaign.
    --Burke.

Concerted

Concerted \Con*cert"ed\, a. Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals.

Concerted piece (Mus.), a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc.

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Wiktionary
concerted

  1. 1 Performed through a concert of effort; done by agreement or in combination. 2 (context music English) Having separate parts for voices and instruments v

  2. (en-past of: concert)

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concerted

adj. involving the joint activity of two or more; "the attack was met by the combined strength of two divisions"; "concerted action"; "the conjunct influence of fire and strong dring"; "the conjunctive focus of political opposition"; "a cooperative effort"; "a united effort"; "joint military activities" [syn: combined, conjunct, conjunctive, cooperative, united]

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Usage examples of "concerted".

I fancy it was concerted between Turvey, Abney, and the head-cook himself.

The thought of a concerted Bashkir commercial push into the Korrush made him want to scream.

Some of the individual figures are good, especially a man with his arm in a sling, and two men conversing on the left of the composition, but there is too little concerted and united action, and too much attempt to show off every figure to the best advantage, to the sacrifice of more important considerations.

The German wedge closest to the crater recoiled under the concerted Russian salvos, their tanks and infantry temporarily stymied.

The rhetoric of law enforcement made it clear that there was, in fact, a concerted crackdown on hackers in progress.

Barracks Wall, after Destriant Karnadas had left and the stream of messengers began its frenzied flow, he had watched the first concerted movement of enemy troops to the east and southeast, the rumbling appearance of siege weapons.

It is a splendid idea, that we must so contrive it that it may not seem to be a concerted plan.

Despite a concerted effort at florid respectability, there is a seediness about BAGBY that goes beyond his overtight clothes: shrewd, pompous, ingratiating by turns, he is constantly eyeing his man and the main chance without missing any of the minor ones by the way.

In the second century it simplified its practice, educated many intelligent practitioners, and began the work of organizing for concerted action, and for medical teaching.

First, Darlene projectiles took out the protecting Vandys, then, millions of men dead, a concerted effort demolished the Cassiopeian force of Middleguard cruisers, leaving a core of huge Rearguards grouped together like frightened, herded meacrs.

Symphonies, divertimenti for concerted instruments, string quartets, a clavier trio, airs, a cantata, and other works were all produced at these concerts, and with almost invariable applause.

After a few tentative sorties were driven back, Lian had judged the hidden archers too minor a danger to justify a concerted advance before the main body of troops could cross.

Suspecting a concerted movement among the hostages, by which they would cooperate with the assailing foe without, the officer in command of the fort gave orders to secure them with irons.

I went home in a melancholy and reflective mood, wondering whether the whole had been concerted.

I saw that it was a concerted scheme, and said with a smile that he could do as he liked, and so I rose to leave them.