TAKE EFFECT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does take effect mean? 

• TAKE EFFECT (verb)
  The verb TAKE EFFECT has 1 sense:

1. go into effect or become effective or operative

  Familiarity information: TAKE EFFECT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAKE EFFECT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Go into effect or become effective or operative

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The new law will take effect next month

Hypernyms (to "take effect" is one way to...):

become; get; go (enter or assume a certain state or condition)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

But the lecture began to take effect, for there was a wide-awake sparkle in his eyes now and a half-angry, half-injured expression replaced the former indifference.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The rapidity with which such a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be an advantage.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The other tests — chronic forced swim test, chronic mild stress paradigm and olfactory bulbectomy — are well-established measures that can also be used to measure how long it takes for an antidepressant to take effect.

(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)