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{
"term": "commence",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "commence",
"heSheIt": "commences"
},
"pastSimple": "commenced",
"pastParticiple": "commenced",
"ingForm": "commencing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to begin to happen; to begin something",
"sensetop": "commence with somethingcommence somethingcommence doing somethingcommence to do something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The meeting is scheduled to commence at noon."
},
{
"text": "I will be on leave during the week commencing 15 February."
},
{
"text": "The day commenced with a welcome from the principal.",
"contextForm": "commence with something"
},
{
"text": "She commenced her medical career in 1996.",
"contextForm": "commence something"
},
{
"text": "The company **commenced operations** in April."
},
{
"text": "to commence bankruptcy proceedings against somebody"
},
{
"text": "We commence building next week.",
"contextForm": "commence doing something"
},
{
"text": "Operators commenced to build pipelines in 1862.",
"contextForm": "commence to do something"
}
],
"topics": ["Working life"]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmens/",
"audio": "co/commence/commence__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmensɪz/",
"audio": "co/commence/commences__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmenst/",
"audio": "co/commence/commenced__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmensɪŋ/",
"audio": "co/commence/commencing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmens/",
"audio": "co/commence/commence__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmensɪz/",
"audio": "co/commence/commences__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmenst/",
"audio": "co/commence/commenced__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/kəˈmensɪŋ/",
"audio": "co/commence/commencing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French commencier, comencier, based on Latin com- (expressing intensive force) + initiare ‘begin’."
}