{
    "term": "implement",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "implement",
            "heSheIt": "implements"
        },
        "pastSimple": "implemented",
        "pastParticiple": "implemented",
        "ingForm": "implementing"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make something that has been officially decided start to happen or be used",
            "sensetop": "implement something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "to **implement changes/decisions/policies/reforms**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A new work programme for young people will be implemented."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's a simple, easily implemented system."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The decision was hard to implement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The decision will be difficult to implement."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The government failed to implement the plan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The proposed changes were never actually implemented."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These reforms have now been widely implemented in schools."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We are implementing a new system of stock control."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["correctly", "fully", "properly"],
                "verb + implement": ["agree to", "decide to", "intend to"],
                "phrases": ["easily implemented", "poorly implemented"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪment/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implement__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪments/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implements__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪmentɪd/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implemented__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪmentɪŋ/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implementing__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪment/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implement__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪments/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implements__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪmentɪd/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implemented__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈɪmplɪmentɪŋ/",
                "audio": "im/implement/implementing__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in the sense ‘article of furniture, equipment, or dress’): partly from medieval Latin implementa (plural), partly from late Latin implementum ‘filling up, fulfilment’, both from Latin implere ‘fill up’ (later ‘employ’), from in- ‘in’ + Latin plere ‘fill’. The verb dates from the early 18th cent."
}