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Effective
ɪˈfɛktɪv
Effective definitions
adjective
effective
- successful in producing a desired or intended result
"effective solutions to environmental problems"
successful effectual efficacious productive constructive fruitful functional potent powerful convincing compelling strong forceful forcible powerful potent weighty plausible efficacious sound valid well founded telling- (of a law, rule, or policy) operative
"the regulation will be effective from January"
- existing in fact, though not formally acknowledged as such
"she has been under effective house arrest since September"
- assessed according to actual rather than face value
"an effective price of £176 million"
noun
effective
effectives
- a soldier fit and available for service
"when the battles broke out, he had a total of 920 effectives"