Usually means: Beginning or starting something new.
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  1. initiation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. initiation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. initiation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. initiation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. initiation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Initiation, initiation: Wordnik
  7. initiation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. initiation: Wiktionary
  9. initiation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. initiation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. initiation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Initiation, initiation: Dictionary.com
  13. initiation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. initiation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Initiation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. initiation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. initiation: Rhymezone
  19. Initiation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. initiation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. initiation: Free Dictionary
  22. initiation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. initiation: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. initiation: Legal dictionary

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  1. initiation: Encyclopedia

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  2. initiation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Initiation: Africa Glossary
  3. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

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  1. initiation: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
noun:  The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
noun:  (chemistry) The first step of transcription or of transduction.

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