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initiate someone into something

1. to induct someone into an organization or activity, usually in a ceremony. They will initiate me into the fraternity next week. They initiated all their new members into the club at once.

2. to introduce someone to the activities associated with a job or other situation. The personnel department will initiate you into our office routines. Our procedures are complicated and it takes weeks to initiate a new employee into all our procedures.

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After the cut the initiates and their guardians were brought from the field to a "seclusion" hut in the forest.

"Seizing the day": right time, right place, and right message for adolescent male reproductive sexual health: lessons from the Meru of Eastern Province Kenya

A written statement available to the public or to account holders that describes a service allowing a consumer to initiate transfers by telephone constitutes a plan--for example, a brochure, or material included with periodic statements.

FINAL RULE--AMENDMENT TO REGULATION E

TEI believes that the finalization of a change in method of accounting should be binding on the IRS and the taxpayer until (1) there is a change in material fact, (2) there is a change in law, or (3) the taxpayer initiates and obtains the Commissioner's consent to change its method of accounting.

Comments on Notice 98-31, Service-initiated accounting method changes

From his pioneering work, the tradition has grown to include thousands of initiates from all walks of life and ethnic groups.