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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
inaugural
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's inaugural speech (=their first one in an important political job)
▪ He said all the right things in his inaugural speech.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
address
▪ She game her first inaugural address at the diocesan meeting held in Chester.
▪ To be sure, an inaugural address is not the occasion for a president to list the details of his legislative agenda.
▪ This is the same president who did not raise a single foreign policy issue in his second inaugural address.
▪ They invited Ramsey to give the inaugural address.
▪ Clinton repeated his call, made in his first inaugural address in 1993, for political reform.
▪ The president closed the speech with a return to the racial healing theme of his Jan. 20 inaugural address.
▪ The elaborate cycle was repeated numerous times as the inaugural address neared.
ball
▪ The inaugural ball gown was an emphatic announcement that the first lady was going to play the style game her way.
▪ Some of the girls bought gowns for an inaugural ball.
▪ National party leaders rewarded him with an invitation to the 1981 inaugural ball.
committee
▪ John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the inaugural committee.
▪ As for providing a breakdown on the individual expenses this year, the inaugural committee is keeping its counsel.
event
▪ Jaruzelski was excluded from all the inaugural events.
▪ But, she added, the company had undertaken to sponsor only the inaugural event.
lecture
▪ Shchapov was only one of the newly appointed professors whose inaugural lecture hinted at a political programme.
▪ Kostomarov expressed an almost identical antipathy to the state in his inaugural lecture of November 1859.
▪ The basis of their programme is clearly outlined in an inaugural lecture given by G. H. Bantock at Leicester in 1965.
meeting
▪ About 30 policemen and warders swapped stories during the inaugural meeting about discrimination and brutality in their services.
▪ An inaugural meeting of the Merseyside Music Industry Association has been set up for tomorrow night.
▪ I believe I quote from the minutes of our inaugural meeting.
▪ An inaugural meeting to launch the group was held recently, where it was decided to approach knitters and weavers as well.
▪ Chairman at the inaugural meeting, he attended Temple every night of the week and attended Nicholson once.
speech
▪ He gave a six-minute inaugural speech from the South Portico before a tightly packed audience.
▪ Sure, he delivered a vacuous inaugural speech.
▪ Great inaugural speeches generally have one memorable sound bite.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Over 500 people attended the inaugural ball.
▪ Professor Eston gave the inaugural lecture in 1860.
▪ The inaugural meeting drew a large audience.
▪ the governor's inaugural speech
▪ The theater's inaugural season will consist of three plays.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A month of arguing in Florida did no favours to the organisers of the inaugural social whirl.
▪ Even if he did politely turn down Branson's parting offer of a seat on Virgin's inaugural flight - for obvious reasons.
▪ The inaugural ball gown was an emphatic announcement that the first lady was going to play the style game her way.
▪ The basis of their programme is clearly outlined in an inaugural lecture given by G. H. Bantock at Leicester in 1965.
▪ This Circle is the inaugural production of the Evidence Room's new space, and what a great space it is.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inaugural

Inaugural \In*au"gu*ral\, a. [Cf. F. inaugural.] Pertaining to, or performed or pronounced at, an inauguration; as, an inaugural address; the inaugural exercises.

Inaugural

Inaugural \In*au"gu*ral\, n. An inaugural address. [U.S.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
inaugural

1680s, from French inaugural (17c.), from inaugurer "to inaugurate" (see inauguration). The noun meaning "an inaugural address" is recorded from 1832, American English.

Wiktionary
inaugural

a. 1 Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated. 2 Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc. n. 1 An inauguration; a formal beginning. 2 A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.

WordNet
inaugural
  1. adj. occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" [ant: exaugural]

  2. serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: initiative, initiatory, first, maiden]

inaugural
  1. n. an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) [syn: inaugural address]

  2. the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration" [syn: inauguration]

Usage examples of "inaugural".

With the crowd in raptures, cannon pounding, church bells clanging, Washington bowed still again and then, Adams at his side, moved back to deliver his inaugural address to a seated Congress.

ON MONDAY, March 4, 1793, in an inaugural ceremony of record brevity, Adams looked on respectfully as Washington took the oath of office.

Long a man of decided temperament, Adams was as determined as he had ever been to maintain the policy of neutrality established by Washington, while refusing to submit to any indignities or to sacrifice American honor--he was determined, in essence, to fulfill his own inaugural promises.

The eminent artist Georges Boulonnais is about to have his inaugural Scottish exhibition next Saturday evening.

One of the key British advisers asked Maliki if he would like help writing his inaugural address.

He went on to reveal the threats Agrippina had made at his inaugural banquet.

Johnny Gentle, managing somehow to look presidential in a Fukoama microfiltration mask, whose Inaugural Address heralded the advent of a Tighter, Tidier Nation.

It appeared that Meadows was summoning all hands in order to address them in an inaugural speech.

Within months of its inaugural, the sparse Palmetto had attracted a bottling plant, three industrial parks, a machine shop, a metal shop, and a tractor plant.

His first novel, Quite Ugly One Morning, was published in 1996 to popular and critical acclaim, and won the inaugural First Blood Award for the best first crime novel of the year.

And Hillary had a special friend: Harry Thomason, the Hollywood producer of Designing Women and Evening Shade, who produced many of the ads and videos for Bill Clinton's campaigns, choreographed the 1992 Democratic convention, and handled the pomp and ceremony of the Clintons' inaugural.

As predicted, old Washington was boycotting the ball, while most of the Southern congressional had either gone home to their seceded states or declined to attend the Inaugural Ball as they had declined to attend the inauguration itself.

Jefferson said famously in his inaugural address before a full Senate Chamber, his voice so soft many had difficulty hearing him.

Architecturally, its plain facade and straight lines echoed the gown Eleanor Roosevelt wore to the inaugural ball, while its interior walls still reproduced faithfully the hues of the split pea mush dished up in hundreds of soup kitchens.

He now reminds you that you are under oath -- sworn to him at your inaugural -- to uphold the Constitution, and that you must see to it that the laws, and the Chief Justice, are obeyed.