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Effectuate

Definition: Effectuate

Effectuate

Verb

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "effectuate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Effectuate \Ef*fec"tu*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Effectuated; present participle verb or noun Effectuating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Effectuate

Synonyms: bring about (v), effect (v), set up (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Effectuate

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Completion

Verb: effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass, consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect, complete; elaborate.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Effectuate

English words defined with "effectuate": activeEffectuated, Effectuating. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Effectuate

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

As registration and certification procedures involve direct personal contact with respective Russian government entities as well as substantial time and paperwork, foreign companies are recommended to effectuate both procedures either through an accredited representative office in Russia or through a hired Russian or foreign agent or distributor. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Effectuate

"Effectuate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Effectuate" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Effectuate

Language Translations for "effectuate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

zbatoj (act, apply, apply to, carry out, carry through, dispense, enforce, execute, follow, obey, observe, practise, realize), shkaktoj (afflict, arouse, beget, breed, bring about, call forth, cause, contrive, create, do, draw, engender, evoke, give, incur, induce, inflict, inspire, move, procure, produce, put, raise, sow, start, stir, strike, unchain, work, wreak), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, commit, despatch, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, perform, process, prosecute, put through, wage), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, commit, create, do, effect, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perform, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, quest, realize, search closely, see, slate, take, work out), ‏عمل بالفعل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

постигам (accomplish, achieve, acquire, come, compass, effect, get, notch up, reach, realize, secure, turn, turn in, work out), изпълнявам (accomplish, accord, act up to, carry into effect, carry out, complete, execute, exercise, fill, fulfil, fulfill, handle, implement, make up, perform, play, practise, pursue, put into effect, put through, redeem, satisfy, verify). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

完成 (Accomplish, Accomplishing, Completed, Completing, Completion, Effectuated, Effectuating, finalise, finalize, finalized, finalizing, finished). (various references)

   

Czech

  

vykonat (accomplish, carry out, discharge, execute, implement, mete out, perform, push through, render). (various references)

   

French

  

effectuer (effect), réaliser, opérer (be effective, have effect). (various references)

   

German

  

bewirken (achieve, activate, bring about, cause, effect, give rise to, induce, procure, produce, to cause, to effect, work). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"וציא לפועל (accomplish, carry into effect, execute, implement, manage, perform, put into effect, put into practice). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

eszközöl (to effect, to place), megvalósít (accomplish, achieve, actualize, attain, effect, execute, implement, materialize, put into effect, put into practice, realize, to attain, to bring into effect, to bring to effect, to bring to fruition, to effect, to effectuate, to flesh out, to make good, to materialize, to realise, to realize, to work out). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengerjakan (deal with, do, undertake). (various references)

   

Italian

  

effettuare (accomplish, achieve, bring about, carry out, contrive, effect, expedite, export, make, perform, realize, take effect, take place). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

effectuateay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

válido (available, lawful children, legal, minion, valid). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

efectua (accomplish, achieve, effect, execute, fulfil, perform, ply, prosecute), realiza (accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring off, compass, effect, float, live, make, obtain, realize). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

совершать (accomplish, bring to pass, commit, commited, committed, effect, perpetrate, perpetrating), приводить в исполнение (carry into effect, enforced by). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ostvariti (accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring about, carry out, compass, cotton on, effect, materialize, objectify, perform, realize). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

efectuar (bring about, contrive, effect, make, prosecute, stage, throw in, to cause). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

effektuera (accomplish, carry out, execute). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

oluşturmak (carve out, compose, constitute, create, forge, form, generate, make up), meydana getirmek (achieve, bring about, bring forth, bring to pass, compose, create, do, effect, generate, spawn, turn out), gerçekleştirmek (achieve, actualize, carry out, carry through, effect, execute, follow out, follow through, make real, materialize, practice, practise, put into practice, realize, substantiate, verify). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

виконувати (administer, administrate, answer, carry out, comply, dispense, do, effect, execute, fulfil, full, implement, obey, perform, play, put into effect, render, solve, tender), здійснювати (actualize, bring to pass, compass, effect, embody, execute, exercise, implement, make, materialize, perpetrate, practise, put into practice, realize, wage), досягати мети. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Effectuate

Derivations

Words beginning with "effectuate": effectuated, effectuates. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Effectuate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affectuate, effecturate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Effectuate"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "effectuate" (pronounced ufe"kkhuwā't)
5-k kh uw ā' tpunctuate.
4-kh uw ā' tinfatuate, situate.
3-uw ā' tattenuate, devaluate, evaluate, extenuate, reevaluate.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Effectuate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-f-t-t-u"

-4 letters: affect, efface, effect, effete, facete, faucet, tuffet.

-5 letters: acute, facet, tacet, tecta, tutee.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-e-f-f-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: effectuated, effectuates.

 

+4 letters: effectualities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Effectuate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

45 66 66 65 63 74 75 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000101 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#99 &#116 &#117 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0066 0066 0065 0063 0074 0075 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

39727271698687678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Rhymes
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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