concerted

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Sometimes accompanying the strike is the boycott_, which may be defined as a concerted avoidance of business relations with one or more employers, or with those who sympathize with those employers.

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  1. adjective Planned or accomplished together; combined: We made a concerted effort to solve the problem.
  2. adjective Music Arranged in parts for voices or instruments.

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  • It was with Marion that the plan was concerted, and not improbably at his suggestion, for moving into the very heart of the State. —  The Life of Francis Marion
  • The priority of the current meeting is to gain further agreements for a concerted, coordinated international response to the global economic crisis. —  SocialFunds.com
  • It's just that by dint of some Cultural Biorhythmic Convergence -- concerted Reagan mythologizing, concerted formulation, and re-formulation, ad infinitum, of anti-Sixties cultural backlash as "normal" "American" —  Bats Left/Throws Right
  • This was a long term concerted effort of many people of various minds concerning the life of the church. —  PRELUDIUM
  • London, 3rd September: Last weekend, we were advised that a deliberate, concerted, and ruthless operation is underway, directed by US disinformation and / or Psy-Ops cadres whose noses are out of joint, to feed us disinformation with the familiar objective of seeking to destroy our credibility as the primary non-US, non-controlled source of reliable information on the financial corruption crisis, compliance with Basel-II and the Settlements. —  Teknosis
 

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/kənˈsərtɛd/
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