0 past simple and past participle of initiate
1 to cause something to begin:
Who initiated the violence?
2 to teach someone about an area of knowledge, or to allow someone into a group by a special ceremony:
Hague initiated a series of reforms of the Conservative Party.
Some of the orders are initiated directly on the trading floor.
The council initiates its own studies and carries out research at the request of private organizations.
The Commission has power to initiate legislation.
The reform of state firms, which dominated heavy industries, was initiated as early as 1978, but it was not successful.
However, most important of all the changes initiated from above was certainly the re-definition of the epistemological regime prevailing in academic economics.
Secondly, liberal economic policies initiated during this time expanded the use of social assistance, thereby increasing budgetary outlays.
