All 6 Uses of
initiative
in
Catch-22
- 'The remaining quarter of the bedsheet I've set aside for myself as a reward for my enterprise, work and initiative.†
Chpt 7 *
- There was no officer who had captured the city, so they gave the medal to General Peckem instead, because General Peckem was the only officer with sufficient initiative to ask for it.†
Chpt 12
- What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness.†
Chpt 20
- He says you've got no initiative either.†
Chpt 25
- The chaplain shook his head, feeling despicably remiss because he did not know how to delegate responsibility and had no initiative, and because he really had been tempted to disagree with the colonel.†
Chpt 25
- The bulb in the tent had blown out several days before, and neither of the two men had been able to muster the initiative to replace it.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(initiative) the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction
or:
to start somethingThe exact meaning of starting something depends upon the context. For example:- "She did it on her own initiative." -- started it without anyone telling her to
- "She seized the initiative." -- started actions that force others to react to her rather than her having to react to them
- "the peace initiative" -- a plan or the start of actions to bring about something
- "a ballot initiative" -- a proposed law that is started by citizen petition rather than by the legislature (applicable in many jurisdictions such as California)