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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Best effort |
Post & Telecom | A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially with regard to the Internet. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| BES | English | Best effort service | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Tom Daschle | I'm not going to come to that conclusion yet. I'm going to make our best effort to make my judgment, once that effort has been made. So that decision is a little ways off. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Conquering the deficits and putting the Government's house in order will require the best effort of all of us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
best effort offering | 4 |
best effort | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BEST EFFORT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | best effort. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | naar beste kunnen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | riittävä palvelutaso. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | service au mieux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | άριστη προσπάθεια. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | al meglio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | estbay effortay melhor esforço. (various references) esfuerzo razonable. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-f-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: befrets, betters, bettors, efforts, fetters, rosette, toffees. | |
-4 letters: before, befret, bereft, berets, better, bettor, effort, fester, fetors, fetter, forest, fortes, foster, freest, obtest, offers, offset, oftest, otters, retest, rottes, setoff, setter, softer, sorbet, stereo, street, strobe, tester, toffee, tortes, toters. | |
-5 letters: beefs, beers, beets, beret, beset, besot, boffs, bores, borts, botts, brees, brose. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 53 54 45 46 46 4F 52 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01010011 01010100 00100000 01000101 01000110 01000110 01001111 01010010 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E S T   E F F O R T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0053 0054 0045 0046 0046 004F 0052 0054 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)363953542394040495254 |
| 1. Quotations: Spoken 2. Quotations: Speeches 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Abbreviations 6. Acronyms 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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