| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One's portable property. Used in plural: belonging (often used in plural), good (used in plural), lares and penates, personal effects, personal property, possession (used in plural), property, thing (often used in plural). Informal : stuff. Law : chattel, movable (often used in plural). See OWNED. 2. Something brought about by a cause: aftermath, consequence, corollary, end product, event, fruit, harvest, issue, outcome, precipitate, ramification, result, resultant, sequel, sequence, sequent, upshot. See CAUSE. 3. The condition of being in full force or operation: actualization, being, materialization, realization. See BE. 4. The power or capacity to produce a desired result: effectiveness, effectuality, effectualness, efficaciousness, efficacy, efficiency, influence, potency. See AFFECT. | | VERB: | 1. To be the cause of: bring, bring about, bring on, cause, effectuate, generate, induce, ingenerate, lead to, make, occasion, result in, secure, set off, stir1 (up), touch off, trigger. Idioms: bring to pass (or effect) , give rise to. See START. 2. To bring about and carry to a successful conclusion: bring off, carry out, carry through, effectuate, execute, put through. Informal : swing. See DO. 3. To compel observance of: carry out, enforce, execute, implement, invoke. Idioms: put in force, put into action. See OBLIGATION, OVER.
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