Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
STRIVE
strive, reach, strain
(verb) to exert much effort or energy; “straining our ears to hear”
endeavor, endeavour, strive
(verb) attempt by employing effort; “we endeavor to make our customers happy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
strive (third-person singular simple present strives, present participle striving, simple past strived or strove, past participle strived or (nonstandard, colloquial) strove or striven)
To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
To vie; to compete as a rival.
Usage notes
• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See English catenative verbs
• The strong or irregular forms "strove" and "striven" are more commonly used in print than "strived".
Etymology 2
Noun
strive (plural strives)
(obsolete) Alternative form of strife
Anagrams
• Rivets, Stiver, rivest, rivets, stiver, tivers, verist
Source: Wiktionary
Strive, v. i. [imp. Strove; p. p. Striven (Rarely, Strove); p. pr. & vb. n. Striving.] Etym: [OF. estriver; of Teutonic origin, and akin to G. streben, D. streven, Dan. stræbe, Sw. sträfva. Cf. Strife.]
1. To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard. Was for this his ambition strove To equal Cæsar first, and after, Jove Cowley.
2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest; -- followed by against or with before the person or thing opposed; as, strive against temptation; strive for the truth. Chaucer. My Spirit shall not always strive with man. Gen. vi. 3. Why dost thou strive against him Job xxxiii. 13. Now private pity strove with public hate, Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate. Denham.
3. To vie; to compete; to be a rival. Chaucer. [Not] that sweet grove Of Daphne, by Orontes and the inspired Castalian spring, might with this paradise Of Eden strive. Milton.
Syn.
– To contend; vie; struggle; endeavor; aim.
Strive, n.
1. An effort; a striving. [R.] Chapman.
2. Strife; contention. [Obs.] Wyclif (luke xxi. 9).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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