verb
- Place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position.
- usage: "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy"
- Accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite.
- usage: "African men are initiated when they reach puberty"
- synonyms: initiate
- Admit as a member.
- usage: "We were inducted into the honor society"
- Produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes.
- synonyms: induce
- Introduce or initiate.
- usage: "The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession"
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