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English
Pronunciation
Verb
spare no effort (third-person singular simple present spares no effort, present participle sparing no effort, simple past and past participle spared no effort)
- (idiomatic) To do everything within one's powers to achieve something.
1951 April, T. S. Lascelles, “British Railway Signalling Since 1925”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 232:This reflects credit not only on the railway staffs concerned but on the various signalling firms, which have spared no effort to carry out research work, and test and apply, when feasible, every new idea.
Translations
do everything within one's powers to achieve something
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