initially
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[edit ]Adverb
[edit ]initially (not comparable )
- At the beginning.
- Initially, I found city life incredibly difficult, but now I'm used to it.
- 2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, "‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told", in The Guardian Weekly [1] , volume 188, number 26, archived from the original on 1 February 2022, page 6:
- In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
- 2023 March 8, David Clough, "The long road that led to Beeching", in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
- Unsurprisingly, the Group was highly critical of the BTC's organisation and finances, and this prompted Marples to bring forward the Transport Act 1962, which created BR as a standalone entity with its own Board, headed by a full-time chairman. Beeching accepted this latter position, and initially became the BTC chairman in June 1961.
- Relating to initials.
Synonyms
[edit ]- at first ; see also Thesaurus:initially
Antonyms
[edit ]- finally ; see also Thesaurus:finally
Translations
[edit ]at the beginning
- Bashkir: башта (başta)
- Bulgarian: първоначално (bg) (părvonačalno), отначало (bg) (otnačalo)
- Chinese:
- Dutch: aanvankelijk (nl)
- Esperanto: komence
- Finnish: aluksi (fi) , alun perin (fi)
- French: initialement (fr) , au début , au commencement
- Galician: inicialmente
- German: zunächst (de) , anfangs (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient Greek: τὴν ἀρχὴν (tḕn arkhḕn)
- Japanese: 始めに (ja) (hajime ni)
- Korean: 처음에 (cheo'eume)
- Manchu: ᡨᡠᡴᡨᠠᠨ (tuktan)
- Occitan: inicialament
- Polish: początkowo (pl)
- Portuguese: inicialmente (pt)
- Russian: первонача́льно (ru) (pervonačálʹno), изнача́льно (ru) (iznačálʹno), снача́ла (ru) (snačála), внача́ле (ru) (vnačále)
- Scottish Gaelic: an toiseach , sa chiad dol a-mach
- Spanish: inicialmente (es) , al principio , en un principio , al comienzo , al inicio
- Swahili: mwanzo (sw)
- Swedish: inledningsvis (sv)
- Thai: ตอนแรก
- Yakut: бастаан (bastaan)
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