endeavour

N ความพยายาม  ความมานะ  ความอุตสาหะ  ความบากบั่น  attempt effort try kwam-pa-ya-yam

endeavour

VI พยายาม (คำ ทางการ  อุตสาหะ  มานะ  บากบั่น  attempt strive try pa-ya-yam

endeavour

endeavour |ɪnˈdɛvə, ɛn- |(US endeavor ) ▶verb [ no obj., with infinitive ] try hard to do or achieve something: he is endeavouring to help the Third World. ▶noun an attempt to achieve a goal: [ with infinitive ] : an endeavour to reduce serious injury. • [ mass noun ] earnest, prolonged, and industrious effort: enthusiasm is a vital ingredient in all human endeavour. • an enterprise or undertaking: a portfolio of business endeavours. ORIGIN late Middle English (in the sense ‘exert oneself ’): from the phrase put oneself in devoir ‘do one's utmost ’ (see devoir ).

endeavour

endeavour verb the company endeavoured to expand its activities: try, attempt, venture, undertake, aspire, aim, seek, set out; strive, struggle, labour, toil, work hard, try hard, exert oneself, apply oneself, do one's best, do one's utmost, give one's all, be at pains; work at, try one's hand at; informal slog away, give something a whirl, have a go at, have a shot at, have a stab at, give something one's best shot, do one's damnedest, go all out, bend over backwards, break one's neck, bust a gut, move heaven and earth; formal essay. ▶noun 1 an endeavour to build a more buoyant economy: attempt, try, bid, effort, trial, venture; informal go, crack, shot, stab, bash, whack, whirl. 2 after several days of endeavour he completed the task: striving, struggling, labouring, struggle, labour, hard work, hard slog, effort, exertion, application, industry; pains; informal sweat, {blood, sweat, and tears }, elbow grease; Brit. informal graft; Austral. /NZ informal (hard ) yakka; archaic travail, moil. 3 what you are proposing is an extremely unwise endeavour: undertaking, enterprise, venture, pursuit, exercise, activity, exploit, deed, act, action, move; scheme, plan, project; informal caper.