ordination

Main Entry:
ordination [awr-dn-ey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an installation
Synonyms: appointment, consecration, coronation, installation, investiture, naming
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: classification
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: categorization
Synonyms: allocation, alloting, allotment, analysis, apportionment, arrangement, assignment, assortment, cataloguing, categorizing, codification, collocation, consignment, coordination, denomination, department, designation, disposal, disposition, distributing, distribution, division, echelon, gradation, grade, grading, graduation, group, grouping, kind, order, ordering, ordination, organization, pigeonholing, regulation, sizing, sorting, systematization, tabulating, taxonomy, typecasting
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: 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: installation
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: consecration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sanctification
Synonyms: anointing, blessing, canonization, dedication, devotion, exaltation, glorification, hallowing, making holy, ordination, ordination
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