Definition of "initiating" []

• Present participle of initiate. (verb)

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• "Ed Griffith, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office, said filing a police report is the first step in initiating a police investigation."
• "The question is not so much whether they were right in initiating the aggression, as to whether the international community should care that they came off worse."
• "This is why I joined with the former Director General of UNESCO, Federico Mayor, in initiating a foundation aimed at creating centres for research and prevention in African countries."