INITIATIVE meaning: Action taken independently to solve problems

We found 41 dictionaries that define the word Initiative:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

initiative, the initiative: Merriam-Webster
initiative, the initiative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
initiative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
initiative: Collins English Dictionary
initiative: Vocabulary.com
Initiative, initiative: Wordnik
initiative, the initiative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
initiative: Wiktionary
initiative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
initiative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
initiative: Infoplease Dictionary
initiative: Dictionary.com
initiative: Online Etymology Dictionary
initiative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Initiative (agency), Initiative (chess), Initiative (disambiguation), Initiative (role-playing games), Initiative, The Initiative (Tunisia), The Initiative (company), The Initiative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Initiative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
initiative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
initiative: Rhymezone
Initiative (f), initiative, initiative (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
initiative: FreeDictionary.org
initiative: Mnemonic Dictionary
initiative: TheFreeDictionary.com
initiative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)

initiative: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
initiative: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Initiative: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
initiative: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

initiative: Netlingo
initiative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

Initiative: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

initiative: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

initiative: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)

Initiative: Backgammon
Initiative: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (initiative)

▸ adjective:  (archaic) Serving to initiate.
▸ adjective:  (US) In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
▸ noun:  A beginning; a first move.
▸ noun:  A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
▸ noun:  The ability to act first or on one's own.
▸ noun:  (politics) An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.

Opposite:

passivity, inertia, indolence, apathy, lethargy

Types:

proactive, reactive, preventive, corrective, mitigating, more...

Phrases:

the initiative, peace initiative, popular initiative, ballot initiative, citizen initiative, more...

Adjectives:

own, individual, private, new, local, personal, major, political, american, strategic, popular

Colors:

orange, green, blue, yellow, red, more...

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