Illustration: At the entrance to an underground bicycle garage during heavy rain, an attendant presses the guarded control button for a flood barrier. The metal barrier is visibly rising from its floor slot, with water beginning to collect against its outer face while the garage floor behind it remains dry.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

発はつ動どう

hatsudou

to put into effect

Used for activating a measure, power or operation. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. しかしこの事ことが原因げんいんで同年どうねんに井伊直弼いいなおすけが発動はつどうした反対派はんたいはへの大弾圧安政だいだんあつあんせいの大獄たいごくの際さいに連座れんざした。

    However, this caused him to be implicated in Ansei no Taigoku, which was a large-scale suppression of opponents invoked in the same year by Naosuke II.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. この決定けっていを受うけてソビエトに対たいしては7月がつ7日なのかいわゆる関東軍特種演習かんとうぐんとくしゅえんしゅうを発動はつどうし、演習名目えんしゅうめいもくで兵力へいりょくを動員どういんし、独どくソ戦争せんそうの推移次第すいいしだいではソビエトに攻せめ込こむという作戦さくせんであった。

    In response to this decision, on July 7, the so-called Kwantung Army Special Maneuvers was started, in which troops, under the pretext of tactical training, were mobilized in preparation for an invasion of the Soviet Union, depending on how the German invasion was progressing.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 停電ていでんを受うけ、緊急対応計画きんきゅうたいおうけいかくの発動はつどうが決きまった。

    After the power outage, a decision was made to activate the emergency response plan.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 発動

  • 発departure; dischargeOnハツ・ホツKunたつ・あばく・おこる
  • 動move; motionOnドウKunうごく・うごかす

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