Definition of IMPLEMENTING (original) (raw)

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Noun

They eat with us, do the beach with us; the girls, K.C. and Jessica, buy kitchen implements for us, come over to casually straighten up, make beds, clear the dishes from the sink and the bedrooms … —Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 2000 In the toolhouse … there were also antique implements worn like prehistoric artifacts: an ancient oblong pink whetstone pointed at either end and soapily warped by all its use, and an old-fashioned square hoe worn into a lopsided metal oval … —John Updike, The Afterlife, 1994 There was a little implement called a lemon zester that she had bought from a door-to-door salesman. —Ann Beattie, New Yorker, 28 Dec. 1987

stone implements used in prehistoric times a sharp-edged implement used to chop wood Verb

A federal interagency group should develop and implement a risk management strategy to reduce human exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like chemicals in food, says a report from the Institute of Medicine … —Bette Hileman, Chemical & Engineering News, 7 July 2003 … drew scattered snickers when he implemented a dress code for Senate staffers … —Michelle Cottle, New Republic, 12 July 1999 States remain years behind in implementing child support regulations … —New York Times, 30 Dec. 1997

I wondered how I might best implement his plan. Due to high costs, the program was never fully implemented.

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Plowshare: an agricultural implement for turning soil, for gouging a cleft in the earth. —Literary Hub, 11 June 2025 Those implements have been digitally erased, a visual filmmaking practice now as common as the common cold. —Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025

Commercial distribution has ceased effective immediately, while enrollment in ongoing clinical trials has been paused until additional risk mitigation measures can be implemented in study protocols. —Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025 Advertisement President Bill Clinton eventually signed the UNCLOS implementing agreement in 1994, when the treaty entered into force. —Time, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for implement