| Noun | 1. | carrying out - the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy" enforcement - the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to |
| 2. | carrying out - the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance" action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" specific performance - the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms linguistic performance - (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence) mechanics, mechanism - the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" officiation - the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty |