MEANING
1. Planned or carried out together by several people or groups toward a shared aim.
2. Made with serious determination and concentrated effort, whether by one person or several.
Use it for
describing coordinated action by separate organizations; distinguishing cooperation from coincidental parallel action; showing that several actors deliberately pursue a common goalDistinguishes coordinated action from sustained determination; concerted need not always mean that several people act together. Writing functions: Causation / Relationships, Analysis / Interpretation.
Words that belong together
- concerted action
- a concerted campaign
- a concerted response
On the page
The report calls for concerted action by schools, transport providers, and local government.
Their concerted response was planned before the individual statements appeared.
The author makes a concerted effort to distinguish the narrator’s beliefs from her own.
He made a concerted attempt to answer the objection rather than repeat the original claim.
Word forms
- Base
- concerted
Usage notes
Usually attributive adjective: a concerted effort or action. Not a separate entry for concerting. More concerted is possible for a stronger degree of coordination or determination; no normal -er/-est forms. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
Practice this word in a sentenceYour margin notes
Keep a thought for later. Sign in to save privately.