effectuate
Make it happen
Effectuate means to bring about or make happen—a formal, often legalistic way of saying accomplish or achieve.
Contracts effectuate agreements, policies effectuate change, governments effectuate reforms.
The new regulations were designed to effectuate consumer protection.
The word appears mostly in legal, bureaucratic, and academic writing, rarely in everyday speech.
Succeed through effort
- attainReach through effort
- fulfillExecute to completion
- completeLacking nothing, fully done
- realizeBecome aware of
actualize · consummate · finalize · bring about · carry out · execute · produce · secure
Pass into law
- executeCarry out fully
- enforceCompel obedience to
- administerManage or dispense
- applyPut into operation
deploy · operationalize · institute · establish · activate · adopt · carry through · discharge
achieve
Succeed through effort
realize · actualize · consummate · finalize · bring about · carry out · execute · produce · secure · obtain
enact
Pass into law
- executeCarry out fully
- enforceCompel obedience to
- administerManage or dispense
apply · deploy · operationalize · institute · establish · activate · adopt · carry through · discharge · conduct
trigger
What initiates action
- precipitateHeadlong and reckless
- engenderCause to arise
- instigateCause to begin
initiate · provoke · catalyze · generate · induce · occasion · spawn · stimulate · produce · bring about
effectuateundo
Reverse a prior action
destroy · abolish · annihilate · extinguish · nullify
ineffectual, effectual, ineffectually, effectually, effectuated, ineffectuality, effectuation