eventuate

American English, from Latin ēventu(s) +‎ -ate, perhaps modeled after actuate.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈvɛntjuːeɪt/, /ɪˈvɛntʃuːeɪt/

eventuate (third-person singular simple present eventuates, present participle eventuating, simple past and past participle eventuated)

1. (intransitive) To have a given result; to turn out (well, badly etc.); to result in. [from 18th c.]

   Synonyms: end up, result, turn out

   • 1847, Karl Marx (Writing in Northern Star), Marx Engels Collected Works, volume 6, page 290:

     Is that to say we are against Free Trade? No, we are for Free Trade, because by Free Trade all economical laws, with their most astounding contradictions, will act upon a larger scale, upon the territory of the whole earth; and because from the uniting of all these contradictions in a single group, where they will stand face to face, will result the struggle which will itself eventuate in the empancipation of the proletariat.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 98:

     Enoch Powell appeared to insult the memory of Dr. King by making a speech warning that “colored” immigration to Britain would eventuate in bloodshed.

   • 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 5, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part II. The Neoliberal Order, 1970–2020:

     These efforts would eventuate in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, yet another piece of legislation that struck at a principle of the New Deal order.

2. (intransitive) To happen as a result; to come about. [from 19th c.]

   Synonyms: come to pass, occur, transpire; see also Thesaurus:happen

   • 2004, Adi Koila Mara Nailatikau, Fiji Senate Speech, 22 October 2004:

     Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.

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