| 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 |