A local politician was called in to inaugurate the new restaurant down the street.
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Inaugurate
/ɪˈnɔːɡjʊ.ɹeɪt/
Synonyms for "inaugurate" (126 found)
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12 entriesbuilding openingceremonial openingera initiationfacility dedicationpolicy launchpolicy shiftpresidential inaugurationprogram initiationproject kickoffreform launchresearch program launchtrend inauguration
Collocations
6 entriesceremonial inaugurationformally inaugurateinaugurate a buildinginaugurate a policyinaugurate a programinaugurate a project
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
4 entriesTranslations
14 translations across 14 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- اِفْتَتَحَ verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Bulgarian
1 entries- откривам verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 開幕 /开幕 verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Esperanto
1 entries- inaŭguri verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Finnish
1 entries- vihkiä verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
German
1 entries- vereidigen verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Greek
1 entries- εγκαινιάζω verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Hindi
1 entries- उद्घाटन verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Hungarian
1 entries- felavat verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Latin
1 entries- auspicor verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Portuguese
1 entries- inaugurar verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Slovene
1 entries- otvoriti verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Spanish
1 entries- inaugurar verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Swedish
1 entries- inviga verb (to dedicate (something) for public access or use with a formal ceremony)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
I would inaugurate the new era; I would set the example of supreme heroism in science; and all the world, and all future ages, should preserve my name with reverent homage, and enwreath it with laurels of undying fame.
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The move from the structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.
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[…] Cn[aeus] Cornelius Dolabella vvas inaugurat or inſtalled king of the ſacrifices, in ſteed of Marcus Martius, vvho died tvvo yeares before.
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Showing 4 of 14 available sentences.