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Definition: Effectuate |
EffectuateVerb1. 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: EffectuateSynonyms: bring about (v), effect (v), set up (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Effectuate |
| English words defined with "effectuate": active ♦ Effectuated, Effectuating. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "effectuate": effectuated, effectuates. (additional references) | |
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"Effectuate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affectuate, effecturate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "effectuate" (pronounced ufe"kkhuwā't) |
| 5 | -k kh uw ā' t | punctuate. |
| 4 | -kh uw ā' t | infatuate, situate. |
| 3 | -uw ā' t | attenuate, devaluate, evaluate, extenuate, reevaluate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 66 66 65 63 74 75 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). ..-. ..-. . -.-. - ..- .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100110 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01110101 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E f f e c t u a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0066 0066 0065 0063 0074 0075 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)39727271698687678671 |
| 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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