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implement as in:  implement the action

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    The mayor promised to implement reforms aimed at reducing traffic congestion.
    implement = put into action
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    Arnold helped build Disney World in Orlando, and had gone on to implement major Parks at Magic Mountain in California, Old Country in Virginia, and Astroworld in Houston.  (source)
    implement = put plans into effect for
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    "To the Fedayeen of Islam [or Islamic sacrificers], this is not the right way to implement Islam," he wrote.  (source)
    implement = put into effect
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    In mid-1944, in response to the dismal results of Pacific rescue searches, the AAF implemented a vastly enhanced rescue system.  (source)
    implemented = put into effect (began using)
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    The subjects will be allowed one full night's sleep before Stage 2 implementation.  (source)
    implementation = putting a plan into effect
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Implementing U.S. trade policies that give a strong preference to goods from immigrant-sending countries would help spur growth in certain industries, such as textiles, that employ women in Honduras.†  (source)
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    Fazlullah denounced Pakistani government officials as "infidels" and said they were opposed to bringing in sharia law. He said that if they did not implement it, his men would "enforce it and tear them to pieces."  (source)
    implement = put into effect
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    It was the way it had always worked with them; Vic was the raw idea man, Roger the shaper and implementer.†  (source)
    implementer = someone who puts a plan into effect
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    It's Max, who appointed Eric to Dauntless leadership at Jeanine's demand, who implemented policies of cruelty and brutality in Dauntless initiation.  (source)
    implemented = put into effect
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    A sampling: "Despite grading's great promise, we show that the regulatory design, implementation, and practice suffer from serious flaws: jurisdictions fudge more than nudge.†  (source)
    implementation = the act of putting a plan, decision, or rule into action
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    During his second term in office, Comrade E. M. S. went about implementing the Peaceful Transition more soberly.†  (source)
    implementing = putting a plan into effect
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    I typed up an email to Michael Reitman and Carole, with the subject line elevator malfunction, that detailed my morning's travails and the steps I took to implement a solution.  (source)
    implement = put into effect
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    Those guidelines had been implemented in 1966, in the aftermath of the Southam trial, and then expanded to include a detailed definition of informed consent in 1971.  (source)
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implement as in:  a small implement

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They found a skeleton along with a number of implements belonging to the Stone Age.
implements = small tools
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    She reached into the drawer and pulled out a strange-looking implement for peeling fruit.
    implement = small tool
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    The first thing Richard remembers is the twine, which, true to his nature, he refers to as a "baling implement."  (source)
    implement = tool
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    Finally he rose and went to the table and hooked up the little two burner gas stove and lit it and got out a frying pan and a kettle and opened the plastic box of kitchen implements.  (source)
    implements = small tools or other useful object
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    In the teeth of every difficulty, in spite of inexperience, of primitive implements, of bad luck and of Snowball's treachery, the work had been finished punctually to the very day!  (source)
    implements = small tools or other useful objects
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    He mooned into the barn shed, into the empty stalls, and he walked into the implement leanto and kicked the refuse that was left, turned a broken mower tooth with his foot.  (source)
    implement = a small tool or other useful object
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    I have copies of these letters, for I found means, during my residence in the hovel, to procure the implements of writing; and the letters were often in the hands of Felix or Agatha.  (source)
    implements = small tools or other useful objects
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    His cleaver had a blade about two feet long, and he never made but one cut; he made it so neatly, too, that his implement did not smite through and dull itself--there was just enough force for a perfect cut, and no more.  (source)
    implement = a small tool or other useful object
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    Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.  (source)
    implements = tools or other useful objects
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    They wanted something more triumphant, like the Goddess of Victory on the memorial two towns over, which had angel's wings and wind-swept robes and was holding a three-pronged implement that looked like a toasting fork.†  (source)
    implement = a small tool or other useful object
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    He made his way to the implements leaning in the corner Rakes.†  (source)
    implements = small tools or other useful objects
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    From multiple Internet sources, suggestions that Obama will soon implement martial law in order to secure power for a third presidential term.†  (source)
    implement = a small tool or other useful object
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    We turned to see the men from the pub running toward us, armed with wooden clubs and farm implements.†  (source)
    implements = small tools or other useful objects
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    INTERROGATOR: You had a plan to eliminate the Adventists from within the ETO, and you even began to implement this plan.†  (source)
    implement = a small tool or other useful object
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