carry out

Verb

carry out (third-person singular simple present carries out, present participle carrying out, simple past and past participle carried out)

1. (transitive) To hold while moving it out.
   • We’ll have to carry the piano out of the shop.
   • And so the little Rabbit was put into a sack with the old picture-books and a lot of rubbish, and carried out to the end of the garden behind the fowl-house.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To fulfill.
   • She finally carried out her lifelong ambition when she appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.
   • The Boy was going to the seaside to-morrow. Everything was arranged, and now it only remained to carry out the doctor's orders.1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   discharge

3. (transitive) To execute or perform; to put into operation; to do.
   • For the entire last summer they were carrying out their plan to renovate the living room.
   • Among the most modern of all the Pacific stock in Great Britain is the stud of "Merchant Navy" and "West Country" Pacifics on the Southern Region, and the rebuilding which is now being carried out, preserving all the best features of the Bulleid designs—such as the free-steaming boiler—and...1957 July, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 496

   Synonyms:

   run