INITIATE


Meaning of INITIATE in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

action

A relator owes no duty to the public to initiate any law enforcement action .

Review the effectiveness of the nursing care provided and where appropriate, initiate any action which may be required.

But at the same time, the self was complex enough to initiate actions and innovate new ideas.

activity

By suggesting or initiating such activities , the teacher legitimates collaboration in the children's eyes.

The children in the following example were using a collection of beads, and their teacher decided to initiate an activity .

In this first example we see how a teacher is able to initiate a sorting activity following a child's chance remark.

campaign

When he initiates a new advertising campaign he takes a risk.

Yet another child initiated a campaign to save a giant tree from being cut down.

The societies would need to initiate recruiting campaigns , and trade union skills and organization would be crucial to their success.

The Star had initiated a campaign against the rules and regulations in 1932, but the effort was short-lived.

He also initiated a staunch campaign urging retractions.

change

Students spend two days a week in their own schools initiating and implementing change .

Initiating progress Adjusting to given changes is one thing; initiating changes, particularly desirable changes, is something else again.

The individual who initiates and manages change .

If he could get a job, it might be easier to initiate some change .

Do they initiate change and if so, what kind of change?

It underlies and initiates the changes seen in development.

His theory is therefore more able to explain change , and even to initiate change through the understanding which it gives.

Pilkingtons have initiated a long-term change in strategic direction towards higher value-added products.

debate

We must marshal our resources to initiate a debate .

The Government's response has been inadequate and that is why I initiated the debate .

The Duke has initiated an important debate , but it is not yet concluded.

development

Current formulations place great emphasis on the role of maturation and psychological vulnerability in initiating the development of symptoms.

He initiated the development of space-based photographic surveillance satellites and the Agena rocket stage to insert them into orbit.

There is however, no justification in making their establishment an essential pre-condition for initiating rural development programmes.

discussion

He also proposes to initiate discussions on planning procedures, within the context of the new statutory planning and local government systems.

And at least he could rely on Freeborn to answer it without initiating a philosophical discussion about the basis of the self.

inquiry

We have initiated an inquiry into the allegations reported to be in a forthcoming book by Patrick Tierney.

investigation

But if you'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation .

It is up to law enforcement to initiate a separate criminal investigation .

policy

The Profitboss initiates policies and practices that ensure all employees are consistently treated.

proceeding

The Act allows, for the first time, children to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make court applications independently.

C., known as Fannie Mae, lenders have to initiate foreclosure proceedings 3 { months after the first missed payment.

The courts construed this broadly to include the documents which initiated the proceedings , the pleadings and the adjudication.

No one in the House has initiated formal impeachment proceedings against Mr Rubin.

It initiated liquidation proceedings after the sum it was owed for components it had supplied reached £2.1 million.

Only the three senior judges could initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.

The Act allows children, for the first time, to initiate proceedings and instruct a solicitor to make applications to court.

process

After all, it is much easier to initiate a peace process than to complete one.

In 1911 he was initiated into the schooling process at the Ecole Primaire in Tours.

But it is rare to initiate the formal process .

It is up to citizens working together to initiate a long term process of communication, mutual support and joint action.

Such agents could initiate an immunological process that becomes self perpetuating long after living organisms have disappeared.

It could only have been relatively cool gases that could initiate accretion processes .

program

Finally, after deliberation, it was decided to initiate the Peace Corps program despite misgivings about working under a military regime.

In the years since Oakland initiated it, the program hardly received any local, much less national, notice.

programme

As well as searching for arbitrage opportunities, computers can also be used to initiate programme trades.

At the other, the researchers initiated an intervention programme .

The Social Science Research Council initiated a research programme .

Using these films as the main teaching aid, the company initiated a programme of management training for small shopkeepers.

In order to attract new investment, the government has initiated a programme to update and extend its treaty network.

project

Mud was not a sound reason to initiate the attic project .

Resident at Balbirnie House from day one has been managing director Eric Brown, who initiated the project .

reform

This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly's moral right to initiate political reforms .

Clinton, who initiated welfare reform , is now portrayed as blocking it.

Therefore it is in women teachers' own interests, as well as those of their female pupils to initiate or support anti-sexist reforms .

Some organized petitions which urged parliament to initiate reform , while most employed their money and influence to promote godliness.

research

Another task is to initiate research of particular relevance to policy issues and to examine existing and proposal policy initiatives on employment.

The Social Science Research Council initiated a research programme.

review

Usually it is the landlord who initiates the review and the tenant who is obliged to serve the counternotice.

A Labour government would immediately initiate the widest possible review defence commitments world-wide and set up an arms conversion agency.

scheme

I interviewed the deputy head who had been instrumental in initiating the scheme and gained the school's consent for the study.

The council initiating the scheme says it's important for residents to have some one who isn't official to talk to.

However, old people who need help do not initiate such schemes .

These organizations were to initiate a renewal scheme for one of the most deprived areas in Britain.

study

Preliminary action was initiated in conjunction with the Strategic Study to discover more about the changing perceptions and requirements of clients.

This occurred because we overestimated the effectiveness of disulfiram when we calculated the sample size prior to initiating the study .

He initiated far-reaching studies of the clustering of galaxies.

The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A large number of companies have initiated recycling programs.

Peace talks have been initiated in an attempt to avert full scale war.

The couple plan to initiate legal proceedings against the police.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But if you'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation.

Finally, after deliberation, it was decided to initiate the Peace Corps program despite misgivings about working under a military regime.

Goldstein fully expects an Architecture-Neutral Distribution Format product programme to be initiated during 1994.

It is not clear what initiates HAPCs.

The Profitboss initiates policies and practices that ensure all employees are consistently treated.

The rebels appear to have initiated a new stage in the war when they crossed the border into Dagestan yesterday morning.

They are the verbs which should initiate the style of movement needed to sustain a ballet.

You may be initiating the correspondence.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

He's one of the initiates, and in my opinion that counts for, and perhaps even excuses, a lot.

Its esoteric meaning is of the domain of the scholar rather than the layman - of the initiate rather than the priest.

Nothing can prepare the initiate for this first breathtaking vision of the planet for which he has been designated steward.

Rising, he turned to the initiates and raised that cup, now glowing.

The Lesser Mysteries, celebrated in winter, prepared the initiate for taking part in the Greater Mysteries the following autumn.

The Nagas should be regarded as the initiates and the guardians of the ancient esoteric knowledge.

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