commencing
Setting things off
Commencing means beginning or starting.
The word is more formal than "start" and appears often in official or ceremonial contexts: Commencing operation in sixty seconds, The ceremony is now commencing.
Legal and military documents favor it: commencing on the first day of the fiscal year.
Founding moment
- outsetInitial point of something
- genesisPoint of creation
- dawnDay's first glow
- onsetStarting point of something
birth · threshold · advent · starting · origin · kickoff · launch · embarking
Completing a planned task
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- enactmentPassing into law
- implementationPutting plans into effect
- activationSetting into operation
operation · validity · force · binding · proceedings · contract · statute · jurisdiction
Official oath-taking ceremony
- oathFormal binding promise
- presidentElected leader of nation
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
- capitolState legislative building
address · democracy · constitution · investiture · office · elect · installation · vows
Completing academic requirements formally
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- processionFormal moving line
- gownLong formal garment
cap · valedictorian · academic · alumni · matriculation · address · tassel · conferral
inception
Founding moment
onset · birth · threshold · advent · starting · origin · kickoff · launch · embarking · opening
execution
Completing a planned task
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
- enactmentPassing into law
- implementationPutting plans into effect
activation · operation · validity · force · binding · proceedings · contract · statute · jurisdiction · provision
swearing-in
Official oath-taking ceremony
capitol · address · democracy · constitution · investiture · office · elect · installation · vows · pledge
graduation
Completing academic requirements formally
- convocationFormal ceremonial gathering
- diplomaAcademic completion document
- processionFormal moving line
gown · cap · valedictorian · academic · alumni · matriculation · address · tassel · conferral · speaker
- beginningsbegin, beginning, start, first, opening
- setting offdeparting, leaving, heading out, taking off, embarking
- handlingdealing with, handling, managing, coping, addressing
- mobilizingmobilizing, rallying, organizing, mustering, marshaling
- incitementinciting, instigating, provoking, incitement, instigation
commencingending
Final portion of something
concluding · finishing · terminating · ceasing · completing