best-efforts selling

[ best-ef-erts ]

/ ˈbɛstˈɛf ərts /

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noun

a method of underwriting a security whereby a syndicate takes a new issue without any guarantees of sale to the issuer.

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How to use best-efforts selling in a sentence

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Perhaps on his own nowadays, Epstein is trying his best to webmaster over a dozen URLs.
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But Republican and Democratic parties have made efforts to reverse that trend.
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You need but will, and it is done; but if you relax your efforts, you will be ruined; for ruin and recovery are both from within.
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We resolved to do our best to merit the good opinion which we thus supposed them to entertain of us.
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He is perplexed and hindered by the lack of soldiers, but is doing his best with his small forces.
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