ring in
• usher something in by or as by ringing a bell.
• "the clock rang in the new year"
Similar:
herald,
signal,
announce,
proclaim,
usher in,
introduce,
launch,
celebrate,
mark,
signify,
indicate,
give notice of,
betoken,
harbinger,
knell,
• report or make contact, especially to or with one's place of work, by phone.
• "every morning she coughed she rang in sick"
ring-in
noun
• a horse or an athlete fraudulently substituted for another in a competition or event.
• "a horse that had been racing as a ring-in"
