COMMENCING

Definition: COMMENCING

COMMENCING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Commence

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "COMMENCING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Crosswords: COMMENCING

Robo-puppy commencing 2 hour yipping session. (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

Commencing countdown, engines on (Space Oddity; performing artist: David Bowie)

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Books

• Evaluation of educational programs for unemployed youth co-ordinated by the Technical Schools Division programs commencing 1st half of 1979 (reference)

• One Year Commencing (reference)

• Proceedings of the Electoral Commission and of the two houses of Congress in joint meeting relative to the count of electoral votes cast December 6, 1876 for the Presidential term commencing March 4, 1877 (reference)

• The Lawyer and His Profession: A Series of Letters to a Solicitor Commencing Business (reference)

• War Journal of Louis N. Beaudry, Fifth New York Cavalry: The Diary of a Union Chaplain, Commencing February 16, 1863 (reference)

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Photographed by Lionel Dottin, probably at the yard of her builder, Federal Shipbuilding Company, East Hackensack, New Jersey, after completion but before commencing her Naval service. She was acquired by the Navy and commissioned on 16 January 1919 as USS Mercer (ID # 3837). She was returned to the U.S. Shipping Board on 3 June 1919. Credit: NAVY.

Booth's Theatre, two weeks, commencing Monday, Feb. 6, every ev'ng and Saturday matinee with the ideal opera company. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Congress, on the 28th of September, 1787, directed the Constitution so framed, with the resolutions and letter concerning the same, to "be transmitted to the several Legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention." On the 4th of March, 1789, the day which had been fixed for commencing the operations of Government under the new Constitution, it had been ratified by the conventions chosen in each State to consider it, as follows: Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788; Virginia, June 25, 1788; and New York, July 26, 1788. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

A great event was commencing at the end of the walk.

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Business

This trend suggests that foreign firms have sufficient funds for initial start-up costs prior to commencing operations. (references)

Indeed, at that time, the number of foreign graduates commencing practice in Australia was equal to those graduating from Australian dental colleges. (references)

Another 30 Thai companies, some with foreign partners, have been accredited to oversee the energy audits for the DEDP. The first round of detailed audits was to be completed in 2001 and implementation of the audit plans are commencing. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

The Constitution states that all parties must respect the laws of the Republic, including the requirement that all organizations be registered with the Ministry of Interior before commencing activities. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

FIRMS CONTEMPLATING THIS MATTER SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THIS IS ONLY A FIRST, ALBEIT NECESSARY, STEP TOWARD COMMENCING OPERATIONS IN THE TUNISIAN MARKET. (references)

Indonesia

Products and production processes are patentable for a period of 20 years commencing from the filing of the patent application, subject to certain requirements. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

Nigeria has signed and ratified the International Labor Organization's (ILO) convention on freedom of association, but Nigerian law authorizes only a single central labor body, the Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC). Nigerian labor law controls the admission of a union to the NLC, and requires any union to be formally registered before commencing operations. (references)

Trade

Nigeria

Investors in the Calabar Export Processing Zone (EPZ) have to pay $500,000 (about N42,500 million) as minimum capital investment before commencing business in the zone. (references)

Travel

Switzerland

All foreigners, including Americans, must have a work permit before commencing employment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "COMMENCING": commencing salary. Additional references.

Afrikaans

beginsalaris (commencing salary), aanvangsalaris (commencing salary). (various references)

Chinese 

开始 (Began, begin, Begun, Commence, Commenced, Commencement, inaugurate, Inaugurated, Inaugurating, inception, start, started, starting, start-off). (various references)

Danish

tjenestegrad ved ansaettelsen (commencing grade, initial grade), skrivelse vedrørende indledning af fremgangsmåden (letter commencing the procedure), rundpløjning udefra og indefter (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside), rundpløjning indefra og udefter (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre). (various references)

Dutch

carréploegen (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre), spiraalsgewijze naar buiten ploegen (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre), spiraalsgewijze naar binnen ploegen (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside), rang bij indiensttreding (commencing grade, initial grade), opploegen (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre), brief tot inleiding van de procedure (letter commencing the procedure), beginsalaris (commencing salary), aanploegen (opening, ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre, starting). (various references)

Esperanto

komenca salajro (commencing salary). (various references)

French

lettre d'ouverture de la procédure (letter commencing the procedure), labour en tournant du centre vers la périphérie (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre), labour en tournant de la périphérie vers le centre (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside), grade de début (commencing grade). (various references)

German

beginnend (incipient, initiating). (various references)

Greek 

βαθμός εισαγωγικός (commencing grade, initial grade), άροση περιστροφική από την περιφέρεια προς το κέντρο (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside), άροση περιστροφική από το κέντρο προς την περιφέρεια (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre). (various references)

Italian

qualifica iniziale (commencing grade, initial grade), lettera di avvio della procedura (letter commencing the procedure), grado iniziale (commencing grade, initial grade), aratura girando dalla periferia verso il centro della parcella (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside), aratura girando dal centro verso la periferia della parcella (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre). (various references)

Korean 

시작 (Commencement, Outset, start, starting). (various references)

Manx

toshee (chief, fore, forward, front, of the beginning, precursory, pre-eminent, prefatory, preliminary, primary, senior, terminal). (various references)

Pig Latin

ommencingcay

Portuguese

categoria inicial (commencing grade, initial grade), carta que inicia o processo (letter commencing the procedure), lavoura por reviramento do centro para a periferia (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre), lavoura por reviramento da periferia para o centro (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside). (various references)

Spanish

categoría de ingreso (commencing grade, initial grade), labor en redondo hacia la periferia (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre), labor en redondo hacia el centro (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside), labor en redondo cerrando (ploughing on the square commencing at the centre, roundabout ploughing starting from the centre), labor en redondo abriendo (ploughing on the square commencing at the outside, roundabout ploughing starting from the outside), escrito de iniciación de procedimiento (letter commencing the procedure). (various references)

Swedish

inledande av. (various references)

Turkish

başlangıç (approach, beginning, big bang, commencement, cradle, dawn, departure, doorway, early, elementary, exordium, first, go off, inception, incipience, incipiency, incunabula, infancy, introduction, lead off, morning, off, onset, origin, outset, preamble, preliminary, prelude, prime, proem, prolog, prologue, push off, setout, start, starting, take off, toe-hold), başlama (begin, connecting, go off, inception, inceptive, initiation, kickoff, launching, onset, outbreak, start, starting, throwoff). (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "COMMENCING": recommencing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"COMMENCING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Camenzind, Comancina, Commenlina. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mnemonic.

-3 letters: genomic, omening.

-4 letters: coigne, coming, commie, conine, coning, gnomic, income, mignon.

-5 letters: coign, comic, conge, conic, conin, genic, genom, gimme, gnome, incog, mimeo, mince, monie, nomen, nonce.

+2 letters: recommencing.

+5 letters: excommunicating.