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Rollout vs Commence - What's the difference?

rollout | commence |

As a noun rollout

is an act of rolling out; deployment.

As a verb commence is

to begin, start.

rollout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of rolling out; deployment.
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    commence

    English

    Verb

    (commenc)
  • To begin, start.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Here the anthem doth commence .
  • * (Oliver Goldsmith)
  • His heaven commences ere the world be past.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
  • To begin to be, or to act as.
  • * (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
  • We commence judges ourselves.
  • (UK, intransitive, dated) To take a degree at a university.
  • * Fuller
  • I question whether the formality of commencing was used in that age.

    Antonyms

    * cease * stop