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Consider the forced higher-order nonlinear neutral functional differential equation $$\frac{{\mathrm{d}}^n}{\mathrm{d}{t}^n}[x\left(t\right)+C\left(t\right)x(t-\tau )]+\sum _{i=1}^m{Q}_i\left(t\right)f_i\left(x(t-{\sigma }_i)\right)=g\left(t\right),t\ge t_0,$$ where $n,m\ge 1$ are integers, $\tau ,{\sigma }_i\in {ℝ}^{+}=[0,\infty )$, $C,Q_i,g\in C([t_0,\infty ),ℝ)$, $f_i\in C(ℝ,ℝ)$, $(i=1,2,\cdots ,m)$. Some sufficient conditions for the existence of a nonoscillatory solution of above equation are obtained for general $Q_i\left(t\right)$ $(i=1,2,\cdots ,m)$ and $g\left(t\right)$ which means that we allow oscillatory $Q_i\left(t\right)$ $(i=1,2,\cdots ,m)$ and $g\left(t\right)$. Our results improve essentially some known results in the references.