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investiture

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Main Entry: investiture
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: initiation

Synonyms:

admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, preliminaries
Main Entry: delegation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assignment of responsibility

Synonyms:

appointment, apportioning, authorization, charge, commissioning, committal, consigning, consignment, conveyance, conveying, deputation, deputization, deputizing, devolution, entrustment, giving over, installation, investiture, mandate, nomination, ordination, reference, referring, relegation, sending away, submittal, submitting, transferal, transference, transferring, trust
Notes: a delegation differs from a legation in that the members of a delegation are usually not charged with a specific mission but merely with the overall task of representing the interests of a body of people, often at a conference during an assembly's regular session; a legate usually acts alone while a delegate acts as part of a group

Antonyms:

keeping
Main Entry: inauguration
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: installation of newcomers

Synonyms:

commencement, inaugural, induction, initiation, institution, investiture, launch, launching, opening, setting up

Antonyms:

adjournment, close, end, finish
Main Entry: induction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: taking in, initiation

Synonyms:

consecration, draft, entrance, greetings, inaugural, inauguration, installation, instatement, institution, introduction, investiture, ordination, selection

Antonyms:

blackballing, expulsion, rejection
Main Entry: initiation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: start, introduction

Synonyms:

admission, baptism, beginning, commencement, debut, enrollment, entrance, inaugural, inauguration, inception, indoctrination, induction, installation, instatement, investiture, preliminaries

Antonyms:

close, conclusion, end, ending, finish, termination
Main Entry: installation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: establishment, inauguration

Synonyms:

accession, coronation, fitting, furnishing, inaugural, induction, installment, instatement, investiture, investment, launching, ordination, placing, positioning, setting up
Main Entry: presentation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: performance; something given, displayed

Synonyms:

act, appearance, arrangement, award, bestowal, coming out, conferral, debut, delivering, delivery, demonstration, display, dog and pony show, donation, exhibition, exposition, giving, introduction, investiture, knockdown, launch, launching, offering, overture, pitch, present, production, proposal, proposition, reception, remembrance, rendition, representation, sales pitch, show, staging, submission
Main Entry: coronation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accession

Synonyms:

crowning, inauguration, investiture
Main Entry: best bib and tucker
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: best clothes

Synonyms:

Sunday best, best bib and band, caparison, finery, full feather, full fig, investiture, nicest clothing, regalia
Main Entry: swearing in
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: solemn promise

Synonyms:

enthronement, inauguration, induction, installation, investiture, solemn declaration, vow
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