implement Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
  2. verb apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design
    • implement a procedure
  3. verb ensure observance of laws and rules;
    apply; enforce.
    • Apply the rules to everyone
  4. verb pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
    follow up; follow through; go through; carry out; follow out; put through.
    • Did he go through with the treatment?
    • He implemented a new economic plan
    • She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal

WordNet

Im"ple*ment noun
Etymology
LL. implementum accomplishment, fr. L. implere, impletum, to fill up, finish, complete; pref. im- in + plere to fill. The word was perh. confuse with OF. empleier, emploier, to employ, F. employer, whence E. employ. See Plenty.
Definitions
  1. That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.
    Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.
Im"ple*ment transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To accomplish; to fulfill. R.
    Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. Sir W. Scott.
  2. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.
    The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following. Nichol.
  3. (Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.

Webster 1913