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Meaning: (transitive)To hold while moving it out.We’ll have tocarrythe pianooutof the shop.1921June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, inHarper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, andcarried outto the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.; (transitive,idiomatic)Tofulfill.Synonym:dischargeShe finallycarried outher lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.1921June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, inHarper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company,→ISSN,→OCLC:The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained tocarry outthe 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 wascarried outto the letter in the opening exchanges as England played with a tempo and threat Montenegro struggled to subdue.; (transitive)Toexecuteorperform; to put intooperation; todo.Synonym:runFor the entire last summer they werecarrying outtheir plan to renovate the living room.1959March, “The 2,500 h.p. electric locomotives for the Kent Coast electrification”, inTrains Illustrated, pages124–125:The body design has beencarried outto the requirements of the B.T.C. Design Panel in association with the Design Research Unit and its lines are described as "intentionally unelaborate".2000, Bob Foster,Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page123:[B]ut easily two-thirds of the work wecarried outin this exercise was the de-bogging of other vehicles around the original one.
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