inaugurate

inauguration | Business English

inauguration
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ɪˌnɔːɡjəˈreɪʃən/us
the act of putting a service, system, etc. into action, or an occasion when this happens:
On Friday the company celebrated the inauguration of their latest North Sea installation.
the act of putting someone into an official position with a ceremony, or an occasion when this happens:
presidential inauguration

Examples of inauguration

inauguration
The process, if successful, was concluded by a ceremony of inauguration (kwatirwa) of the new mushingantahe.
The group's membership quickly doubled, reaching 600 one year after its inauguration, and 1,500 members by 1998.
Under the constitution the said secretary would then act as provisional president until the inauguration of a freely elected vice president.
Soon after his inauguration, his government conducted successive rounds of formal investigations and intimidations aimed at opposition lawmakers.
The twentieth century would see the inauguration of a new period in the relations between cane planters and mill owners.
It also had a very low level of literacy, which continued long after the inauguration of the national state.
The bridge brought back a childhood memory which not only combined politics and early love, but also anguish, for that inauguration happened just before the father's death.
In 1933, with the inauguration of the field methods of survey, the course of larval parasitism has been observed on all the rain-grown and winter-irrigated crops surveyed in the district.
Furthermore, independent loudness controls were essential, as during the days of the inauguration there were other performances, so that sometimes certain areas had to be closed and successively re-opened.
I personally took part last year in the inauguration of a new apprenticeship scheme for the retail stationery trade.
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