implementing
- 1Present participle of implement.
The government is implementing sweeping reforms across the health system.
Implementing the strategy required months of careful planning.
Note
The -ing form does two jobs. After be it builds the progressive (the team is implementing changes), and on its own it acts as a verbal noun (implementing the plan took months). It carries both meanings of the verb: putting a policy or decision into practice, and, in technical writing, realizing a specification such as an algorithm, interface or protocol. It belongs to the verb only and has no tie to the noun implement, a tool.
She spent the week implementing the new protocol.
Implementing the algorithm efficiently took several attempts.
implementing is a form of implement
implement, verb: To put a plan, decision, or policy into practice and carry it out. Full entry
- Forms
- implementimplements he/she/itimplementing -ing formimplemented past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- implement → implementing: add -ing
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