llevar a cabo — meaning in English

English meaning

• carry verb To hold something and move it from one place to another.
• hold verb To grasp, carry, or support something with your hands or arms.
• perform verb To carry out an action or task.
• prosecute verb To formally charge someone with a crime and pursue legal action against them in court.

Senses

llevar a cabo is used for these senses in English:

• carry (transitive, arithmetic) In an addition, to transfer the quantity in excess of what is countable in the units in a column to the column immediately to the left in order to be added there.
• carry out (transitive) To execute or perform; to put into operation; to do.
• carry through (transitive, idiomatic) To manage to execute; to perform successfully, all the way to the end.
• prosecute (transitive) To pursue something to the end.
• pull off (transitive, idiomatic) To achieve, accomplish, succeed at (something difficult).

carry — full definition

1. verb To hold something and move it from one place to another.
2. verb To have something on your person, such as a weapon, illness, or item.
3. verb To be responsible for a large share of a team's success.
4. verb To be pregnant with (a child).
5. verb In arithmetic, to transfer a surplus digit to the next column when adding.

hold — full definition

1. verb To grasp, carry, or support something with your hands or arms.
2. verb To keep something in a particular state, position, or place, such as reserving it or making someone wait.
3. verb To remain true, valid, or in effect.
4. noun A grip or grasp on something.
5. noun The cargo storage area below a ship's deck.

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