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reasonable endeavours

phrase

B2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A less onerous obligation than best endeavours, generally requiring a party to take one reasonable course of action and permitting its own commercial interests to be weighed.

The seller agreed only to use reasonable endeavours to procure the consent of the landlord to the assignment.

Topic: Contract collocations in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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