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Carrying out

verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it wordnet
  2. 2
    the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of carry out form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way."

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