Noun
(law) An assurance of good-faith effort to achieve best results under prevailing circumstances.
(finance) An effort to sell securities without a firm underwriting.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWork is the order of the day, just as it was at one time, with our first starts and our best efforts. Do you remember? Therein lies its delight. It brings back the forgotten; one's stores of energy, seemingly exhausted, come back to life. Boris Pasternak
[T]he only meaning of life worth caring about is one that can withstand our best efforts to examine it. Daniel Dennett
If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma, are sometimes consoling. Simon Blackburn
Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary. Peter Straub
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success. Tom Peters
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty. Eliot Spitzer