inaugurate
pronunciation
How to pronounce inaugurate in British English:
UK [ɪˈnɔːɡjəreɪt]
How to pronounce inaugurate in American English:
US [ɪˈnɔːɡjəreɪt]
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- Verb:
- commence officially
- open ceremoniously or dedicate formally
- be a precursor of
Word Origin
- inaugurate
- inaugurate: see augur
- inaugurate (v.)
- c. 1600, a back-formation from inauguration and also from Latin inauguratus, past participle of inaugurare (see inauguration). Related: Inaugurated; inaugurating.
Example
- 1. After their mid-term election victory , and the failure of mr obama 's stimulus spending to deliver the expected returns , republicans feel they are on a roll-and that the debt-ceiling deadline gives them just the lever they need to inaugurate an historic change of course .
- 2. Rothenberg tries to inaugurate a constancy assumption based on psychologizing about underlying basic personalities . Aside from the fact that " basic " changes can take place at any time , economics deals with marginal changes , and a change is no less a change for being marginal .