Usually means: Action taken independently to solve problems.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word initiative:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. initiative, the initiative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. initiative, the initiative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. initiative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. initiative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. initiative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Initiative, initiative: Wordnik
  7. initiative, the initiative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. initiative: Wiktionary
  9. initiative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. initiative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. initiative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. initiative: Dictionary.com
  13. initiative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. initiative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Initiative (agency), Initiative (chess), Initiative (disambiguation), Initiative (role-playing games), Initiative, The Initiative (Tunisia), The Initiative (company), The Initiative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Initiative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. initiative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. initiative: Rhymezone
  19. Initiative (f), initiative, initiative (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. initiative: Free Dictionary
  21. initiative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. initiative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. initiative: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Initiative: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  7. initiative: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. initiative: Netlingo
  2. initiative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Initiative: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initiative: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initiative: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Initiative: Backgammon
  2. Initiative: Chess Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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.

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