Effectuate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Effectuate \Ef*fec"tu*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Effectuated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Effectuating}.] [Cf. F. effectuer. See
     {Effect}, n. & v. t.]
     To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to
     fulfill.
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           A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. --Sir P.
                                                    Sidney.
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           In order to effectuate the thorough reform. --G. T.
                                                    Curtis.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  effectuate
       v : produce; "The scientists set up a shockwave" [syn: {effect},
            {bring about}, {set up}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "effectuate":
     abide by, accomplish, achieve, act, adhere to, administer, attain,
     author, be productive, bear, beget, breed, bring about,
     bring forth, bring into being, bring off, bring to effect,
     bring to fruition, bring to pass, carry, carry out, carry through,
     cause, commit, compass, complete, conceive, constitute, consummate,
     create, deal with, discharge, dispatch, dispose of, do, do the job,
     do the trick, do to, effect, enact, enforce, engender, engineer,
     establish, execute, father, fetch, fill out, form, found, fulfill,
     generate, gestate, give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to,
     give rise to, go and do, honor, implement, inaugurate, incept,
     industrialize, inflict, install, institute, knock off, make,
     make out, manage, mass-produce, materialize, observe, occasion,
     organize, originate, overproduce, pay, perform, perpetrate,
     polish off, produce, promulgate, prosecute, pull off, put away,
     put in force, put through, realize, render, set afloat,
     set on foot, set up, silken, sire, succeed, take and do,
     take care of, transact, turn the trick, up and do, volume-produce,
     work, work out, wreak