0 past simple and past participle of inaugurate
1 to put someone into an official position with a ceremony:
American presidents are always inaugurated on 20 January .
The European Community inaugurated the Single European Market in 1993.
The change of government inaugurated a new era of economic prosperity.
It inaugurated a programme of new shipbuilding, strategic debate, and technical development.
It could be immediately inaugurated, enhanced, and studied more widely, as sequenced in that order, respectively.
Because of this, the second privatisation phase gave new impulse to legislation and, in fact, inaugurated a wave of new bills.
The "cultural turn" from the 1970s, however, inaugurated a new historiographical era.
In this paradoxical way, their work inaugurated the later twentieth century's complex, and ambivalent, obsession with identity.
In turn, revenge is inaugurated following a scene of confession.
However, if it proves to have inaugurated a new period in the judiciary's history, this will be as much a result of changing political circumstances.
Together with the availability of recordings of live events, they inaugurated new modes of listening.
