initiative

[ɪˈnɪʃətɪv]

Definition:
1. Readiness to embark on bold new ventures.
2. The first of a series of actions.
3. Serving to set in motion.

Use 'initiative' in a sentence:

1. There's talk of a new peace initiative.
2. She knew she had to take the initiative and maintain an aggressive game throughout.
3. Economic policy is liberalized to encourage initiatives in production.
4. Government initiatives to help young people have been inadequate.
5. This universal consistency among education experts indisputably demonstrates an immutable principle of learning: initiative and correct methods are fundamental to academic success.
6. Such initiative is highly commendable.
7. Local police officer said beachgoers should not feel threatened by sharks because the fish never attack human beings on their own initiative.
8. He showed little initiative, handling all matters strictly by the book.
9. What do you plan to do for the Belt and Road Initiative?
10. The Catholic Church soon launched a campaign against the initiative, helping force Ella Flagg Young, the superintendent of schools, to resign.
11. He studies on his own initiative.
12. Amorous initiative is firmly reserved to the man, who sets about courtship with a club.
13. Your boss proposes a new initiative you think won't work.
14. There should be ring-fenced funding for local crime prevention initiatives.
15. We must take the initiative in the struggle to end the war.
16. He displays great initiative in his work.
17. He's got no initiative in his work.
18. You won't get much help. You'll have to use your initiative.
19. Britain is expected to put forward a fresh initiative on reducing the debts of the poorest countries.
20. The Prime Minister's initiative has much to commend it.
21. Both central and local initiative should be brought into play.
22. A statesman must display initiative.
23. She did it on her own initiative.
24. The middle child is influenced by many variables; however, middles are less likely to take initiative and more anxious and self-critical than others.
25. Belt and Road Initiative will have a very positive effect on the world.
26. She does not like to do so from her own initiative.
27. Today it is announcing the launch of the Excellent Educators for All Initiative.
28. The government must not use this initiative as a means of resolving the pension problem through the back door.
29. He believed in giving his staff scope for initiative.
30. In this way they brought into full play the initiative, wisdom and power of the masses.
31. The community centre was set up under the auspices of a government initiative.
32. The plan is an initiative funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
33. He paused enough to consider the options but never so long as to lose the initiative.
34. If they reject or ignore the initiative, the public will vote on it in November.
35. The government now hopes to seize the initiative on education.
36. The party seized the initiative with both hands.
37. State bureaucracies can tend to stifle enterprise and initiative.
38. It was up to the US to take the initiative in repairing relations.
39. He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war.
40. We have the initiative; we intend to keep it.
41. The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%.
42. The proposed initiative would mandate a reduction of carbon dioxide of 40%
43. We are the only power willing to take the initiative in the long struggle to end the war.
44. A new initiative was needed to break the logjam.
45. Women frequently say that they feel awkward taking the initiative in sex.
46. She was disappointed by his lack of initiative.
47. However, the rationale for such initiatives is not, of course, solely economic.