commencing

Meaning of commencing

verb, gerund or present participle
  1. 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):

begin

Meaning begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space:

start

Meaning (of an enterprise, meeting, or event) begin or be formally established:

open

Meaning cause (a process or action) to begin:

initiate

Meaning introduce or establish (a scheme, undertaking, or policy):

institute

Meaning begin or introduce (a system, policy, or period):

inaugurate

commencing antonyms

Meaning bring or come to an end:

conclude

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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