bring to bear

1. 1.

   bring into operation or effect

   “The new members brought to bear new concerns to the U.N.”

   Broadereffect

Questions about bring to bear

What does bring to bear mean?

bring to bear means "bring into operation or effect".

Is bring to bear a common word?

bring to bear is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.