COMMENCE


Meaning of COMMENCE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kəmens ]

( commences, commencing, commenced)

When something commences or you commence it, it begins. ( FORMAL )

The academic year commences at the beginning of October...

They commenced a systematic search...

The hunter knelt beside the animal carcass and commenced to skin it.

= begin

VERB : V , V n / -ing , V to-inf

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