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