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third-person singular simple present effectuates, present participle effectuating, simple past and past participle effectuated
(transitive) To cause, bring about (an event); to accomplish, to carry out (a wish, plan etc.). quotations examples
[T]he next necessary step was to elude the vigilance of my guard: and in this manner did I effectuate my purpose.
1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 88, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […]
A military draft derives from Congress’s power to raise armies; federal jury duty effectuates the Sixth Amendment right to a jury trial.
2022 January 11, Charles Lane, “Opinion: On vaccine mandates, the Supreme Court is doing a job Congress should have finished long ago”, in The Washington Post