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Verb: carry out  ka-ree awt
  1. Cause to happen; complete successfully
    "carry out a task"
    - carry through, accomplish, execute, action, fulfill [N. Amer], fulfil [Brit, Cdn]
     
  2. Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
    "She carried out his recommendations with a written proposal"
    - follow through, follow up, follow out, implement, put through, go through

Derived forms: carried out, carries out, carrying out

Type of: complete, effect, effectuate, finish, set up