Usually means: Starting or beginning something new.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. initiating: Merriam-Webster
  2. initiating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. initiating: Vocabulary.com
  4. Initiating, initiating: Wordnik
  5. initiating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. initiating: Wiktionary
  7. Initiating, initiating: Dictionary.com
  8. initiating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Initiating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Initiating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. initiating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. initiating: FreeDictionary.org
  13. initiating: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. initiating: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initiating: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (initiate)

noun:  A new member of an organization.
noun:  One who has been through a ceremony of initiation.
noun:  One who is oriented in and familiar with a topic or subject; especially, one who is an expert in it.
verb:  (transitive) To begin; to start.
verb:  (transitive) To instruct in the rudiments or principles; to introduce.
verb:  (transitive) To confer membership on; especially, to admit to a secret order with mysterious rites or ceremonies.
verb:  (intransitive) To do the first act; to perform the first rite; to take the initiative.
adjective:  (obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new.
adjective:  (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.
▸ Also see initiate


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