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initiative

adj
/ɪˈnɪʃ.ə.tɪv/

Etymology

From French initiative, from Medieval Latin *initiativus (“serving to initiate”), from Late Latin initiare (“to begin, to initiate”), from Latin initium (“beginning”), from ineo (“enter, begin”). By surface analysis, initiate + -ive.

  1. derived from initium
  2. derived from initio — “to begin, to initiate”
  3. derived from *initiativus✻
  4. derived from initiative

Definitions

  1. Serving to initiate.

    • suspected! that indefinite word, which was tortured into every meaning of injustice and oppression, and became what the French call the mot de ralliement, the initiative term of captivity and death
    • The success of that initiative dish: that first experiment of hers in cookery: was so entire, so unalloyed and perfect, that John Westlock and Tom agreed she must have been studying the art in secret for a long time past;

  2. In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.

    • The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.

  3. A beginning

    A beginning; a first move.

    • Not only are all religions welcome at the Voice Community Kitchen, but experts also say such initiatives could be key to improving ethnoreligious engagement and lead to better conflict mediation in the future.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A new development

      A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.

    2. The ability to act first or on one's own.

    3. An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from…

      An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.

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Derived

counterinitiative, direct initiative, initiatively, mixed initiative, popular initiative, seize the initiative, take the initiative

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at initiative. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at initiative. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at initiative

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA