Bring About

Definition: Bring About

Bring About

Verb

1. Cause to happen or occur; "The scientists set up a shockwave".

2. Make possible; "The grant made our research possible".

3. Bring about; "His two singles gave the team the victory".

4. Cause to occur or exist: "This procedure produces a curious effect"; "The new law gave rise to many complaints"; "These chemicals produce a noxious vapor".

5. Plan, organize, and carry out (an event).

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Literature

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Synonyms: Bring About

Cause

Verb: be the cause; n of; originate; give origin to, give rise, to, give occasion to; cause, occasion, sow the seeds of, kindle, suscitate; bring on, bring to bring pass, bring about; produce; create; set up, set afloat, set on foot; found, broach, institute, lay the foundation of; lie at the root of.

Completion

Do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.

Crosswords: Bring About

Books

• How Shall We Bring About the Revolution?: Syndicalism and the Co-Operative Commonwealth (reference)

• How to bring about a socialist market economy? : theses for working panels (reference)

• The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (American Politics and Political Economy) (reference)

• The Icarus Paradox: How Exceptional Companies Bring About Their Own Downfall (reference)

• Thinner at Last: The New Medicine That Releases Your Brain's Power to Bring About Permanent Weight Loss (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Congress Party can bring about the unity and prosperity of the country, vote for the Congress Party. Credit: Library of Congress.

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It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. (reference)

The dark ages may return, the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of science, and what might now shower immeasurable material blessings upon mankind, may even bring about its total destruction. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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Your time has been properly and delicately spent, if you have been endeavouring for the last four years to bring about this marriage.

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Health

Although these interventions do not cure autism, they often bring about substantial improvement. (references)

To bring about greater and awareness of heritable disorders of connective tissue in the medical professions and in the public at large. (references)

The findings, published in 1998, are important in that they may bring about a change in the way the medical community treats ischemic stroke. (references)

Business

Korea's strong growth is expected to bring about a 15% annual increase in this sector over the next three years. (references)

Good marina management skills will naturally bring about additional opportunities to sell various marine goods ranging from ship-navigators and fish-finders to topsiders and consumer products, many of which are supplied by U.S. Firms. (references)

Under the Information Technology Agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO), India is committed to bring about a zero-duty regime for all IT hardware by the year 2003. In the FY 2000 Central (Federal) Budget customs duty had been reduced for the electronics and IT sector. (references)

Economic History

Burkina Faso

Efforts to bring about his release, directed by Capt. (references)

Libya

Libya's refusal to comply led to the approval of UNSC Resolution 748 on March 31, 1992, imposing sanctions designed to bring about Libyan compliance. (references)

Finland

It may alter the constitution, bring about the resignation of the Council of State, and override presidential vetoes; its acts are not subject to judicial review. (references)

Human Rights

Yugoslavia

NGO's have been credited with helping to bring about, by their presence and activities, an overall decline in police brutality and incidents of abuse against citizens. (references)

Political Economy

ISRAEL

USTR noted that Israel has demonstrated that it is serious about addressing piracy, but it needs to increase resources and personnel to bring about adequate prosecution and prosecution of IPR crimes. (references)

Trade

Ukraine

An enterprise restructuring activity builds on corporate governance practices to bring about improvements in privatized enterprises. (references)

Women

Mongolia

The family law which went into effect in 1999 details rights and responsibilities regarding alimony and parents' rights, and is intended to bring about timely dispute settlement and avoid the causes of some domestic violence. (references)

Indonesia

The Government and NGO's are targeting awareness campaigns at Muslim religious leaders and those directly involved in performing female circumcisions (such as traditional birth attendants), and towards society at large, to bring about an end to these practices. (references)

Worker Rights

India

On April 25, several trade unions organized a one-day strike in Maharashtra to protest the state government's attempts to bring about labor law reforms, which they felt would adversely affect them. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bring about": bring about a union ♦ bring about an accident ♦ To bring about. Additional references.

Albanian

shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, call forth, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, effectuate, engender, evoke, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), përmbys (capsize, dislocate, keel, overbear, overset, overthrow, overturn, prone, pull over, topsy turvy, uncrown, upset, upturn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سبب (account, beget, breed, cause, give rise to, ground, inspire, motif, motive, occasion, procure, purpose, ratio, reason, rise, score, source, wherefore, why), ‏أدى (bring, conduct, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, function, give rise to, go, perform, put on, result). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обръщам (cant, convert, heave, invert, jib, jibe, notice, overset, overturn, pay, prong, reflect, reverse, revert, set, slew, slue, tip, tip over, turn, turn around, turn aside, turn over, turn round, twist, upset), причинявам (bring, bring forth, cause, create, do, effect, engender, generate, induce, inflict, make, procure, produce, putrefy, set off, set up, throw down, work, work up), извършвам (achieve, act, effect, execute, perform, pull, put through, transact, turn off), довеждам до (lead, spell). (various references)

Chinese 

策劃 (engineer, plot, scheme). (various references)

Czech

zpùsobit (cause, entail, inflict, make, raise, wreak), vyvolat (bring, call, call forth, call up, cause, develop, draw, evoke, induce, initiate, invite, raise, start, stir), přivodit. (various references)

Danish

vanskeligheder,der alvorligt vil kunne forringe den oekonomiske situation i en bestemt egn (difficulties which could bring about serious deterioration in the economic situation of a given area), tilpasse bestaaende toldaftaler med tredjeland (to bring about an adjustment of tariff agreements in force with third countries), gennemfoere en forhoejelse paa mindst 20 % af deres samlede vaerdi (to bring about an increase of not less than 20 percent in their total value), de processer, som giver anledning til en rekoncentrering af radioaktiviteten, der ledes ud i aabne vande, er gerne reversible (the processes which bring about a reconcentration of the radioactivity discharged into open water are mostly reversible). (various references)

Dutch

uitwerken (act, be effective, finish, have effect, work out), tot gevolg hebben, ten gevolge hebben (evoke). (various references)

Esperanto

rezultigi. (various references)

Finnish

synnyttää (arouse, be delivered of, be in labour, bear, call forth, cause, create, give birth, give birth to, give rise to, labour, produce), saattaa aikaa (cause), saada aikaan (accomplish, cause, effect, perform), aikaansaada (accomplish, cause, effect, lead to, produce), aiheuttaa (cause, come from, create, give rise to, lead to, originate in, produce, result in). (various references)

French

provoquer, occasionner, faire arriver, causer (bring), amener (bring, bring round). (various references)

German

bewirken (achieve, activate, cause, effect, effectuate, give rise to, induce, procure, produce, to cause, to effect, work), betätigen (activate, actuate, apply, effect, operate, show, throw, to actuate, to operate, work), zustandebringen (achieve, get done), zeitigen (lead to), verursachen (activate, bring on, cause, create, generate, give rise to, occasion, originate, provoke, set up, spark, to cause, to originate), stiften (arrange, cause, donate, endow, establish, found, give, make), herbeiführen (bring on, cause, encompass, induce, induction, induction course, mediate, precipitate, work), anstiften (abet, cause, incite, initiate, instigate, put up to, start, suborn, to abet, to instigate, to suborn), anrichten (cause, dish, dish up, dress, get up to, prepare, serve, sideboards). (various references)

Greek 

προκαλώ (beget, bring on, call forth, call out, cause, challenge, dare, defy, engender, evoke, fetch, give rise to, induce, provoke). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ביא לי�"י (engender, give rise to, lead, occasion, take effect), ל�'ל�'ל (knead, revolve, roll, trundle), ל�'רום (cause, give rise to, motivate, occasion, take effect). (various references)

Hungarian

okoz (beget, bred, bring forth, cause, gave, give rise to, given, inflict, to breed, to bring forth, to effect, to engender, to generate, to give, to inchoate, to induce, to inflict, to motivate, to occasion, to produce, to provoke), elõidéz (bring forth, cause, evoke, give rise to, induce, provoke). (various references)

Indonesian

mendatangkan (import, incur), membawa (bring, carry, take along, transport), melakukan (carry out, commit, make, perform, perpetrate, undertake). (various references)

Italian

portare (adduce, bear, bring, bring forth, carry, convey, drive, fetch, get, lead, move, nourish, produce, take, to bring, wear), effettuare (accomplish, achieve, carry out, contrive, effect, effectuate, expedite, export, make, perform, realize, take effect, take place), causare (activate, bring, cause, do, effect, give, give rise to, produce, start off, work). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

齎らす (to bring, to bring about, to take), 醸し出す (to bring about, to engender), 来たす (to bring about, to cause, to induce, to produce), 来す (to bring about, to cause, to induce, to produce), 夫婦の仲�'裂く (to bring about marital separation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きたす (to bring about, to cause, to induce, to produce), ふうふのなか�'さく (to bring about marital separation), かもし� す (to bring about, to engender), もたらす (to bring, to bring about, to take). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingbray aboutay

Portuguese

tercomoresultado, resultarem, acarretar (cart, result in). (various references)

Romanian

produce (afford, arise, bear, bring, bring forth, cause, create, deliver, engender, fabricate, generate, give, give forth, happen, machine, make, manufacture, mill, operate, produce, raise, shape, yield). (various references)

Russian 

вызывать (bring, bring forth, call, call in, challenge, cite, conjure, engender, entail, evoke, evoked, exert, give rise to, induce, involve, produce, provoke, ring for, summon, whistle up), быть причиной (cause). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prouzrokovati (cause, gender, give rise to, make, trigger off), ostvariti (accomplish, achieve, actualize, carry out, compass, cotton on, effect, effectuate, materialize, objectify, perform, realize), izazvati (arouse, call up, cause, challenge, create, educe, engender, generate, induce, originate, produce, prompt, tempt, touch off, trigger, trigger off), dovesti (bring, lead, take). (various references)

Spanish

resultar (come off, follow, point out to be, prove, result, take, trace, turn out to be), resignarse (bring, make the best of, put up, resign oneself), producir (activate, afford, bear, breed, bring, bring forth, bring in, carry, cause, develop, father, generate, give, give rise to, induce, knock out, lead, originate, pay, produce, put out, raise, result in, return, throw back, to produce, turn out, work, yield), ocasionar (activate, cause, cause to take place, endanger, entail, give, give rise to, induce, involve, jeopard, jeopardize, occasion, produce, throw up), hacer virar (put about), efectuar (contrive, effect, effectuate, make, prosecute, stage, throw in, to cause), causar (activate, beget, bring, bring on, cause, develop, draw, entail, give, give rise to, hole, inflict, occasion, precipitate, produce, put, raise, start, touch off). (various references)

Swedish

förmedla (connect, effect, mediate, negotiate, supply), anställa (employ, engage, hire, indent, make, take on), åvägabringa (effect), åstadkomma (achieve, cause, create, make, work). (various references)

Turkish

beraberinde getirmek (attend, bring smth. in its wake), yol açmak (beat a path, beget, blaze the trail, call forth, cause, cut, entail, evoke, give rise to, give smb. a lead, involve, lie behind, raise, set forward), orsa alabanda etmek, neden olmak (beget, bring, bring along, call forth, cause, conduce, cost, create, determine, do, draw on, encompass, engender, excite, give rise to, incline, invite, originate, procure, produce, provoke, raise, touch off, trigger), meydana getirmek (achieve, bring forth, bring to pass, compose, create, do, effect, effectuate, generate, spawn, turn out), ileri sürmek (adduce, advance, affirm, allege, assert, broach, come up with, contend, drive on, enunciate, hold forth, interpose, lay, prefer, present, press home, pronounce, propose, propound, publish, put forth, put forward, set forward, set up, throw out, urge, weigh in with). (various references)

Ukrainian

спричинювати (involve), призводити. (various references)

adfero affero, concinnabat, concinnanda, concinnandas, concinnat, concinnatis, concinnavit, confla, conflabimini, conflabitur, conflabo, conflandum, conflans, conflasti, conflata, conflatae, conflator, conflatur, conflatus, conflaverunt, conflavit, confletur, crea, creabit, creabitur, creabuntur, creans, crearentur, crearet, creas, creasti, creata, creatae, creatam, creati, creatis, creator, creatum, creatura, creaturae, creaturam, creatus, creavi, creavit, creavitque, creo, cretes, effecta, effecti, effectum, effectus, efficeremur, effici, efficiamini, efficiamur, efficiar, efficiaris, efficiebatur, efficiemus, efficientur, efficiet, efficietur, efficimini, efficit, efficitur, eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, excito, fac, facere, facerem, faceremus, facerent, faceres, faceret, faceretis, faceretque, faciam, faciamque, faciamus, faciant, faciantque, facias, faciat, faciatis, faciebant, faciebat, faciebatis, faciebatque, faciemus, facienda, faciendam, faciendas, faciendi, faciendo, faciendum, faciens, facient, faciente, facientem, facientes, facienti, facientia, facientibus, facientis, facientque, facies, faciesque, faciet, facietis, facietisque, facietque, facimus, facio, facis, facit, facite, facitis, facito, faciunt, facque, facta, factae, factaeque, factam, factaque, factas, facti, factique, factis, facto, factorum, factos, factum, factumque, factura, facturi, facturum, facturus, factus, factusque, feceram, feceramus, fecerant, feceras, fecerat, feceratis, fecere, fecerim, fecerimus, fecerint, feceris, fecerit, feceritis, feceritque, fecero, fecerunt, feceruntque, feci, fecimus, fecique, fecisse, fecissem, fecissent, fecisset, fecisti, fecistis, fecit, fecitque, inportant, inportavi, perfecerunt, perfecisset, perfecisti, perfecit, perfecta, perfectae, perfectam, perfectas, perfecte, perfecti, perfectis, perfectius, perfecto, perfectorum, perfectos, perfectum, perfectumque, perfectus, perfice, perficere, perficiam, perficiat, perficiatur, perficiebat, perficiendi, perficiens, perficient, perficientur, perficiet, perficio, perficit, perficite, perficitis, perficitur, perficiunt. (various references)

schikken. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tabouring.

-2 letters: aborting, borating, taboring.

-3 letters: antibug, autoing, barbing, boating, bruting, bubinga, gunboat, orating, outbrag, outgain, outgrin, outrang, outring, rabboni, rainout, robbing, routing, rubbing, tabbing, taborin, tabuing, touring, tubbing.

-4 letters: agouti, aroint, bagnio, barbut, baring, barong, bating, bonita, boring, brogan, burbot, burton, gabbro, gabion, giaour, gibbon, gitano, gratin, guitar, nougat, nutria, oaring, obtain, onagri.