initiate

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Can I initiate a wire transfer from an internet cafe in Laos?

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Quick take

someone new to a field or activity

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of initiate gathered in one view.

noun

someone new to a field or activity

noun

someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

noun

people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for initiate.

noun

someone new to a field or activity

noun

someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

noun

people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity; "it is very familiar to the initiate"

verb

bring into being; "He initiated a new program"; "Start a foundation"

verb

take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of; "This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"

verb

accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty"

verb

bring up a topic for discussion

verb

set in motion, start an event or prepare the way for; "Hitler's attack on Poland led up to World War II"

Example sentences

Can I initiate a wire transfer from an internet cafe in Laos?

> Going forward, I am probably just going to initiate a chargeback.

I volunteered to take a police polygraph test, hired a lawyer and initiated a libel suit.

Or, barring that, that Tesla reserves the right to revoke the license if you initiate a patent lawsuit against it.

For example; I used to open an aft cargo door at 100 knots to get them to initiate an RTO and I would brief them on it during the briefing.

There are real social sanctions that occur when women initiate negotiations.

I encourage her to delete this post and initiate a criminal trial in order to hold the perpetrator accountable.

I'm pretty sure Facebook could have built the exact same functionality for less money and in less time as it took to initiate and finalize the acquisition.

What attracted him to the issue was that it was simultaneously a daily challenge and an opportunity to initiate long-term social change.

These are supposed to be discrete, semantically meaningful boot levels that you could purposely initiate: boot to runlevel 1, boot to runlevel 2, drop back to runlevel 1.

There is a culture of denial and intentional blindness to the consequences of US actions abroad and a terrible enthusiasm for the leaders who initiate these kinds of things.

This was one of the principal motivations for him to initiate the project for homotopy type theory, which also has roots in Martin-Löf type theory and is also being developed formally in Coq.

"We've now hit the point that state-sponsored digital operations are recognized as having the potential to initiate armed international conflicts.