bring on

verb

brought on; bringing on; brings on

transitive verb

: to cause to appear or occur

Synonyms

• beget
• breed
• bring
• bring about
• catalyze
• cause
• create
• do
• draw on
• effect
• effectuate
• engender
• generate
• induce
• invoke
• make
• occasion
• produce
• prompt
• result (in)
• spawn
• translate (into)
• work
• yield

Examples of bring on in a Sentence

this legislation will surely bring on some unintended consequences

Recent Examples on the Web

TikTok’s future Social video app TikTok came back to life Sunday in the U.S., after a brief outage brought on by a law signed by President Biden to ban the service unless its Chinese parent company found a buyer for it. —Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2025

Villa could have brought on Leon Bailey, Emiliano Buendia, Donyell Malen and Jhon Duran. —Jordan Campbell, The Athletic, 18 Jan. 2025

The main opposition Democratic Party used its majority in parliament to bring on Yoon’s impeachment vote, although some 12 lawmakers from Yoon’s own party also voted to impeach. —Reuters, NBC News, 16 Jan. 2025

To settle the case, Integral agreed to various reforms, paid back the loans and brought on a management consultant, the Harvard Business School Club of New York, to review its systems, operations and finances. —Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 15 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1592, in the meaning defined above