WordNet
groundbreaking ceremony
n. the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project [syn: groundbreaking]
Usage examples of "groundbreaking ceremony".
Ten months after the hunting fiasco at Wilderness Veldt, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Miami on the future site of the willie vasquez-washington senior high school.
A young reporter named Dave Albert was doing a series of manonthestreet interviews while he and his coworkers waited for the mayor and the governor to arrive for the groundbreaking ceremony.
A garden was planted, benches were introduced, and I received a phone call from a woman who asked me, as a prominent resident on the southern fringe of the Upper West Side, to come down and preside over the groundbreaking ceremony.