0 present participle of dedicate
2 If you dedicate a book, play, performance, etc. to someone, you publicly say that it is in that person's honour:
3 When a building, especially a religious building, is dedicated, there is a ceremony at which it is formally opened for use and its particular purpose is stated:
He dedicated his life to freeing the world from famine and disease.
If you are in the area, you should dedicate at least a day to seeing the city.
We use estimated land value as an upper bound for the opportunity cost of dedicating a property to conservation.
Dedicating generous amounts of time to the ' frontline ' and really getting to know the subjects is not however always practical or enthusiastically pursued by researchers.
However, they were also selected to use ecologically contingent, conditional mating strategies, dedicating some effort to shortterm and extra-pair mating under specific conditions.