Collocations for "implement"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "implement" in context.
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implement
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- implement a [strategy, change, process, provision, program, plan]
- implement a (new) [law, rule, regulation]
- implement [an efficient, a cost-saving] process
- implement change
- implement and [maintain, manage, evaluate, enforce, monitor, support]
- [easily, successfully, effectively] implemented
- implemented in [accordance, line] with
- implemented by [means, use] of
- implemented by the [school, government, company]
- implemented following [a trial, consultation, a vote]
- [hard, impossible, easy] to implement
- [garden, political, household, farm] implements
- a [household] implement used [as, for, to]
- [sharp, dangerous, illegal, deadly] implements
- [a seemingly, an apparently] innocent implement
- an implement of [change, progress, peace]
- the implements of the [state, court, government]
- a necessary implement in
- use implements
'implement' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
develop
- plan
- improvement
- survey
- scheme
- method
- safety
- security
- contingency
- carving
- marketing
- mainstream
- regulation
- minor
- permanent
- pilot
- practical
- proposed
- seasonal
- sweeping
- thoughtful
- comprehensive
- cumbersome
- effectively
- devise
- reform
- complicated
- envision