carry out
See also: carryout
English
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Verb
carry out (third-person singular simple present carries out, present participle carrying out, simple past and past participle carried out)
- (transitive) To hold while moving it out.
- We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To fulfill.
- She finally carried out her lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders.
- 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England[1]:
- Capello warned his players that caution was not an option as they went in search of the result that would take England to Euro 2012. And his message was carried out to the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.
- (transitive) To execute or perform; to put into operation.
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Translations
to carry out — see fulfill
To hold while moving something out.
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To fulfill
To execute, perform
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Further reading
- “carry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “carry out”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.