Usually means: Initial phase or starting point.
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  1. opening: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opening: Collins English Dictionary
  5. opening: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opening, opening, opening: Wordnik
  7. opening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opening: Wiktionary
  9. opening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opening: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. opening: Dictionary.com
  13. opening: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. opening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Opening (chess), Opening (morphology), Opening, The Opening (album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Opening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. opening: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. opening: Rhymezone
  19. opening, opening (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. opening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. opening: Free Dictionary
  22. opening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. opening: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. opening: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. opening: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Opening: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. opening: Legal dictionary
  5. Opening: Financial dictionary
  6. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. opening: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. opening: Medical dictionary

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  2. opening: Idioms

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  1. opening: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to the start or beginning of a series of events.
adjective:  (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing a batsman who opens the innings or a bowler who opens the attack
noun:  An act or instance of making or becoming open.
noun:  A gap permitting passage through.
noun:  An act or instance of beginning.
noun:  Something that is a beginning.
noun:  The first performance of a show or play by a particular troupe.
noun:  The initial period when an art exhibition, fashion show, etc. is first opened, especially the first evening.
noun:  The first few measures of a musical composition.
noun:  The first few moves in a game.
noun:  A vacant position, especially in an array.
noun:  A time available in a schedule.
noun:  An unoccupied employment position.
noun:  An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
noun:  (mathematics) In mathematical morphology, the dilation of the erosion of a set.

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