implementación

implementation

noun eem-pleh-men-tah-SYOHN Rare

Usage Note

Implementación is a loanword-based noun that has become standard in technical, administrative, and political Spanish — la implementación de una política (the implementation of a policy). Some prescriptivists prefer aplicación or puesta en marcha, but implementación is now fully accepted. It is feminine, following the -ción pattern.

Examples

"La implementación del plan llevó dos años."

Natural Translation

The implementation of the plan took two years.

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