Usually means: Begins or stems from source.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. originates: Merriam-Webster
  2. originates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. originates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Originates, originates: Wordnik
  5. originates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. originates: Wiktionary
  7. originates: Dictionary.com
  8. originates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. originates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. originates: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. originates: Legal dictionary
  3. originates: Financial dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. originates: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. originates: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (originate)

verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to be; to bring (someone or something) into existence; to produce or initiate a person or thing.
verb:  (intransitive) To come into existence; to have origin or beginning; to spring, be derived (from, with).
adjective:  (obsolete, rare, with 'upon') Founded on, having its origin in (something).
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