commencing
Meaning of commencing
verb, gerund or present participle
- begin.
his design team commenced work
a public inquiry is due to commence on the 16th
Middle English: from Old French commencier, comencier, based on Latin com- (expressing intensive force) + initiare ‘begin’.
Information about commencing
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of commencing
com-menc-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- commencing is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
commencing synonyms
Meaning perform or undergo the first part of (an action or activity):
Meaning begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space:
Meaning (of an enterprise, meeting, or event) begin or be formally established:
Meaning cause (a process or action) to begin:
Meaning introduce or establish (a scheme, undertaking, or policy):
Meaning begin or introduce (a system, policy, or period):
commencing antonyms
Meaning bring or come to an end:
Words that rhyme with commencing
Macing, acing, afacing, aggracing, antiracing, backspacing, belacing, boldfacing, bracing, catfacing, chacing, commonplacing, counterbracing, defacing, disgracing, dispacing, displacing, effacing, embacing, embracing, emplacing, enfacing, engracing, enlacing, enracing, facing, footracing, furnacing, gracing, grimacing, horseracing, inlacing, interembracing, interfacing, interlacing, interspacing, intertracing, lacing, letterspacing, macing, manacing, medevacing, menacing, microspacing, misplacing, misspacing, mistracing, necklacing, nonfacing, nonmenacing
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