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FOUNDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does founding mean? 

FOUNDING (noun)
  The noun FOUNDING has 1 sense:

1. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something newplay

  Familiarity information: FOUNDING used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOUNDING (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

creation; foundation; founding; initiation; innovation; instauration; institution; introduction; origination

Context example:

the foundation of a new scientific society

Hypernyms ("founding" is a kind of...):

beginning; commencement; start (the act of starting something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "founding"):

authorship; paternity (the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing)

Derivation:

found (set up or lay the groundwork for)

found (set up or found)


 Context examples 


The social institution involving legal and/or religious sanction whereby men and women are joined together for the purpose of founding a family unit; the state of being a married couple.

(Marriage, NCI Thesaurus)

This drug profile reveals the potential to be part of a single-dose cure, benefitting people who are infected with malaria, and working as a preventative measure, says Kelly Chibale, a corresponding author of the article and founding director of the University of Cape Town (UCT) Drug Discovery and Development Centre, H3D.

(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)



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