implement

Definitions

Latin implēre 'to fill in, fill up' (in- 'in' + plēre 'fill'). An implement was first 'what fills up / completes a job' — the gear needed to get something done (farm implements). The verb then grew from the noun: to implement a plan is to supply what fills it out and carries it through, i.e. to put it fully into effect.

Common Collocations

• 1.implement a plan实施计划
• 2.implement a policy执行政策
• 3.implement changes实施变革
• 4.implement a system部署系统

Example Sentences

• 1.

  The government plans to implement the new policy next year.

• 2.

  It's one thing to design a system, another to implement it.

• 3.

  Early farmers made implements out of stone and bone.

Easily Confused

implement vs execute — both mean to carry out, but implement stresses putting a plan into working operation over time (implement a policy); execute stresses carrying out a specific action or order, often precisely or at a point in time (execute a command, execute the plan flawlessly).