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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | establishment, inauguration |
| Synonyms: | accession, coronation, fitting, furnishing, inaugural, induction, installment, instatement, investiture, investment, launching, ordination, placing, positioning, setting up |
| Main Entry: | airport |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | center for transportation by air |
| Synonyms: | aerodome, airdrome, airfield, airstrip, hangar, helipad, heliport, home plate, installation, landing strip, runway, strip |
| Main Entry: | appointment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | allotment, approval, assigning, authorization, certification, choice, choosing, commissioning, delegation, deputation, designation, election, empowering, installation, naming, nomination, ordination, promotion, selection |
| Main Entry: | beginning |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start of an event or action |
| Synonyms: | alpha, basis, birth, blastoff, commencement, creation, dawn, dawning, day one, genesis, inauguration, inception, induction, infancy, initiation, installation, introduction, kickoff, onset, opener, opening, origin, origination, outset, point of departure, preface, prelude, presentation, rise, root, rudiment, source, spring, square one, starting point, takeoff, threshold, top |
| Antonyms: | completion, conclusion, consummation, end, ending, finish, goal, termination |
| Main Entry: | delegation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust |
| Notes: | a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group |
| Antonyms: | keeping |
| Main Entry: | establishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organization; creation |
| Synonyms: | enactment, endowment, formation, formulation, foundation, founding, inauguration, installation, institution, setting up |
| Main Entry: | footing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | foundation, basis |
| Synonyms: | basement, bedrock, bottom, establishment, foot, foothold, ground, groundwork, infrastructure, installation, resting place, seat, seating, settlement, substratum, substructure, underpinning, understructure, warrant |
| Main Entry: | induction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking in, initiation |
| Synonyms: | consecration, draft, entrance, greetings, inaugural, inauguration, installation, instatement, institution, introduction, investiture, ordination, selection |
| Antonyms: | blackballing, expulsion, rejection |
| Main Entry: | initiation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | start, introduction |
| Synonyms: | admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, investiture, preliminaries |
| Antonyms: | close, conclusion, end, ending, finish, termination |
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