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initiate

English

  1. 🔊 people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity
    “it is very familiar to the initiate”
  2. 🔊 someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field
  3. 🔊 someone new to a field or activity
  4. 🔊 take the lead or initiative in
    “This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants”
  5. 🔊 accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite
    “African men are initiated when they reach puberty”
  6. 🔊 set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for
    “Hitler's attack on Poland led up to World War II”
  7. 🔊 bring up a topic for discussion
  8. 🔊 bring into being
    “He initiated a new program”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 iniciado initiate
  2. 🔊 entablar to initiate, to strike up, to engage in, to enter into, to establish, to open (e.g. a conversation, dialogue, cooperation, collaboration, contact, a connection, a relationship)

Similar words

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