0 the act of officially putting someone into an important position, or the ceremony at which this is done: --
1 the act of putting a service, system, etc. into action, or an occasion when this happens: --
On Friday the company celebrated the inauguration of their latest North Sea installation.
2 the act of putting someone into an official position with a ceremony, or an occasion when this happens: --
presidential inauguration
I think we ought to carry our minds back for one minute to the inauguration of those yards.
I was privileged to attend the inauguration of that brigade a year ago.
We are witnessing the inauguration of a new era in national relationships.
I wondered whether this included the development or inauguration of any new medical schools.
I personally took part last year in the inauguration of a new apprenticeship scheme for the retail stationery trade.
Furthermore, independent loudness controls were essential, as during the days of the inauguration there were other performances, so that sometimes certain areas had to be closed and successively re-opened.
In 1933, with the inauguration of the field methods of survey, the course of larval parasitism has been observed on all the rain-grown and winter-irrigated crops surveyed in the district.
The bridge brought back a childhood memory which not only combined politics and early love, but also anguish, for that inauguration happened just before the father's death.
