concerted

Modifies a noun

• effort: What we need is a concerted effort to promote organ donation.
• lobbying: It only goes to show that concerted lobbying can have results.
• attempt: A concerted attempt to make changes to adjust to new demands could make for a busy Tuesday.
• action: UN refugee chief calls for concerted action to defend asylum on.. .
• campaign: The bomb was part of a concerted new campaign by Taliban fighters against Western troops.
• push: He has already gathered support in Europe for a concerted push to keep America engaged in the run-up to the congressional elections.

Modifying Another Word

• only: He said he was confident it could be solved painlessly and economically, if only concerted action was taken.
• very: There appears to have been a very concerted attempt to keep things very secret.
• ever: Its distinctive approach is to unite all the main actors in the first ever concerted approach to avert a major extinction crisis.
• then: A similar still more comprehensive plan of murder was then concerted for the 5th Feb.

Used with adjective complement

• have: The report ran that Catherine had concerted the whole affair with the assassins, but this was speedily set down as a calumny.