take effect

English

Verb

take effect

1. (of a drug, etc.) to become active; to become effective

   The medication won't begin to take effect for 3-4 hours.

2. (of a law, etc.) to come into force, to come into effect, to inure

Conjugation

• See take.

Translations

to become active; to become effective

• Bulgarian: подействам (podejstvam), влизам в сила (vlizam v sila)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 生效 (zh) (shēngxiào)

• Finnish: alkaa vaikuttaa
• French: faire effet (fr), agir (fr)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: wirken (de), wirksam werden
• Hungarian: hat (hu)
• Icelandic: hrífa (is)
• Russian: де́йствовать (ru) impf (déjstvovatʹ), поде́йствовать (ru) pf (podéjstvovatʹ)

come into force — see come into force

References

• “take effect” (US) / “take effect” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “take effect” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
• “take effect”, in Collins English Dictionary.