initiate

initiate into (something)

1. To formally install or inaugurate someone into a particular office, group, or role. A noun or pronoun can be used between "induct" and "into." When will we be initiated into the honor society? I can't believe you really want to be initiated into a frat.
2. To familiarize someone with the tasks associated with a particular job or role. Yep, Tina has been initiating me into the tasks that I'll have to do while she's out on maternity leave.
See also: initiate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

initiate someone into something

 
1. to induct someone into an organization or activity, usually in a ceremony. They will initiate me into the fraternity next week. They initiated all their new members into the club at once.
2. to introduce someone to the activities associated with a job or other situation. The personnel department will initiate you into our office routines. Our procedures are complicated and it takes weeks to initiate a new employee into all our procedures.
See also: initiate
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • induct
  • induct into
  • induct into (something)
  • initiate into
  • initiate into (something)
  • inaugurate
  • inaugurate as
  • inaugurate as (something)
  • install as
  • install as (something)
References in periodicals archive
Interviews conducted with initiates undergoing circumcision focussed on two issues--life before circumcision and their expectations of life after circumcision.
"Seizing the day": right time, right place, and right message for adolescent male reproductive sexual health: lessons from the Meru of Eastern Province Kenya
The process addressed above will automatically initiate the recovery software to restore a failed OS partition from a network UNC path.
Image backup & disaster recovery
Skull and Bones, insisted Robbins in a USA Today op-ed column, "does not run a secret world government, collaborate with Nazis or require initiates to lie naked in a coffin." Sober analysts of the partially submerged international Power Elite do not believe that Skull and Bones is running that hidden network.
Bones of contention: infamous for reportedly bizarre initiation rituals, Yale's secret society Skull and Bones serves as a recruiting ground for entrants into the covert international Power Elite. (Conspiracy)
A "preauthorized electronic fund transfer" under Regulation E is one authorized by the consumer in advance of a transfer that will take place on a recurring basis, at substantially regular intervals, and will require no further action by the consumer to initiate the transfer.
FINAL RULE--AMENDMENT TO REGULATION E
(2) Concededly, where there are two (or more) permissible methods of accounting for an item, and in connection with an examination the taxpayer discovers that it is employing a suboptimal method, the IRS might properly decline to exercise its authority to initiate a change in method in the tax years under examination.
Comments on Notice 98-31, Service-initiated accounting method changes
Tumor promoters--incomplete carcinogens that cannot initiate a malignancy by themselves--also initiated papillomas.
Ferreting out cancer risk with novel mice
When I interviewed her in 1981, she had initiated thirty-two people into the Orisha tradition, and as the first santera to initiate a recognized Orisha godchild in New York City, she established precedents for performing initiation ceremonies there.
The Yoruba Orisha tradition comes to New York City
We cannot hope for any of these--or exert effective leadership in an international effort to stop proliferation--so long as we continue to test new nuclear warheads, insist on our freedom to initiate nuclear warfare, and maintain grossly excessive arsenals.
Manhattan Project II
Olden was one of the first NIH directors to initiate programs specifically designed to address health disparities, a measure that has now been adopted by the entire NIH.
Olden times: looking back on a career at the NIEHS
2003-36 clarifies that an executor can continue an innocent spouse claim started while the decedent was alive (and can even initiate one after the spouse died), provided the decedent met applicable innocent spouse requirements before death.
Innocent spouse. (From The IRS)
Mothers' influence on when their children initiate sexual intercourse appears to be greater for daughters than for sons, according to an analysis of longitudinal data from matched pairs of adolescents and their mothers.
Mothers exert more influence on timing of first intercourse among daughters than among sons. (Digests)
Initiate half-hour/hourly checks and/or placement of resident at nursing station, as needed.
Catch a falling star
Hand found they could initiate the fuse in many different types of optical fibers.
Fibers with flare
It also presents an opportune time to review the types of accounting practices that constitute a method of accounting for tax purposes, the general procedures by which a taxpayer may initiate a change in accounting method, certain benefits or consequences of initiating or not initiating a change, and a brief discussion of the new voluntary-method-change guidance.
Significant new guidance for changing an accounting method
In an ESCON world, there is no concept of a device suddenly waking up and deciding to initiate a data transfer.
Crossing The ESCON/SAN Border?