Meaning & use
Initialing
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Marking or signing with one's initials, especially to approve or acknowledge a document.
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The manager spent the morning initialing each page of the revised contract.
Diplomats finished initialing the draft treaty before it went to their governments for ratification.
A note on using this word
Commonly used in legal and business contexts, where initialing each page shows that a party has reviewed it before final signature.
Words with a similar meaning
signingendorsing
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