| Main Entry: | ordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an installation |
Synonyms: |
appointment, consecration, coronation, installation, investiture, naming |
| Main Entry: | ordination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a system |
Synonyms: |
categorization, classification, order, organization, plan, system |
| Main Entry: | appointment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assignment of responsibility |
Synonyms: |
allotment, approval, assigning, authorization, certification, choice, choosing, commissioning, delegation, deputation, designation, election, empowering, installation, naming, nomination, ordination, promotion, selection |
| Main Entry: | classification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | categorization |
Synonyms: |
allocation, alloting, allotment, analysis, apportionment, arrangement, assignment, assortment, cataloguing, categorizing, codification, collocation, consignment, coordination, denomination, department, designation, disposal, disposition, distributing, distribution, division, echelon, gradation, grade, grading, graduation, group, grouping, kind, order, ordering, ordination, organization, pigeonholing, regulation, sizing, sorting, systematization, tabulating, taxonomy, typecasting |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | consecration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sanctification |
Synonyms: |
anointing, blessing, canonization, dedication, devotion, exaltation, glorification, hallowing, making holy, ordination, ordination |