implementverb [ T ]
uk/ˈɪm.plɪ.ment/us/ˈɪm.plə.ment/B2 to start using a plan or system:
The changes to the national health system will be implemented next year.
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- The determination of policy is not your business - your job is to implement it.
- Local councils will be given some leeway as to how they implement the legislation.
- He has been vested with the power/authority to implement whatever changes he sees fit.
- Consultants found the experience frustrating - their reports were only partly implemented, or, worse still, just pigeonholed.
- The country had been slow to implement the new European directive.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuate
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigator
- introduce
- jumping-off point
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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implementation
noun [ U ] uk/ˌɪm.plɪ.menˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɪm.plə.menˈteɪ.ʃən/
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implementation of the law/agreement
Various projects for constructing new schools are under implementation in the region.
implementnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɪm.plɪ.mənt/us/ˈɪm.plə.mənt/a tool that works by being moved by hand or by being pulled across a surface:
garden/household/agricultural implements
Shopkeepers are not supposed to sell knives and other sharp implements to children.
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Tools in general
- aid
- blade
- device
- gadget
- hardware
- household goods
- instrument
- machine tool
- power tool
- precision instrument
- sucker
- suction cup
- tool
- toolbox
- toolkit
- utensil