introduced
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
introduce/ɪntrəˈdjuːs/
▶verb
- 1 bring into use or operation for the first time.
■ bring (a plant, animal, or disease) to a place for the first time.
■ (introduce something to) bring a subject to the attention of (someone) for the first time.
■ present (new legislation) for debate in a legislative assembly.
- 2 present (someone) by name to another.
- 3 insert or bring into something.
- 4 occur at the start of.
■ provide an opening announcement for.
– derivatives
introducer noun.
introducer noun.
– origin ME: from L. introducere, from intro- ‘to the inside’ + ducere ‘to lead’.
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- alien
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- bioavailability
- biomaterial
- bioremediation
- black swan
- blast furnace
- bluegrass
- Canada goose
- cane toad
- Caucasian
- contrast medium
- Draize test
- either
- endoscope
- entasis
- epidural
- faerie
- final clause
- flavour
- foreign
- forsythia
- fugue
- Gregorian calendar
- grey squirrel
- inheritance tax
- introduction
- ISA
- Julian calendar
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- Mongoloid
- MOT
- Negroid
- neither
- new
- New Look
- nicotiana
- pataphysics
- poison
- rainbow trout
- Rawlplug
- seed
- shaddock
- swede
- tayberry
- tilapia
- toxicant
