effectuate
verb (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they effectuate | |
| he / she / it effectuates | |
| past simple effectuated | |
| past participle effectuated | |
| -ing form effectuating |
- effectuate something
to make something happen 使发生；实现 Word Originlate 16th cent.: from medieval Latin effectuat- ‘caused to happen’, from the verb effectuare, from Latin effectus, from efficere ‘accomplish’, from ex- ‘out, thoroughly’ + facere ‘do, make’.