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She is smart, dedicated and has initiative. I expect to see her promoted soon.initiative = willingness to act independently
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He did it on his own initiative. His boss didn't even know about it.initiative = having started a task without instruction
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Once the advance was stalled, we lost the initiative.initiative = ability to control events
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The CEO introduced a new initiative to improve customer satisfaction.initiative = new plan or effort
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The ballot initiative would limit real growth in state expenditures to growth in population.initiative = proposal
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I admire her initiative.initiative = willingness to act independently
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For the second week in a row, I leave out Hilly's bathroom initiative. (source)initiative = proposal or thing started
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Come on, Jacqueline, show some initiative . (source)initiative = determining what should be done and doing it without instruction
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There were several attempts to snatch at them, but it was the mayor's wife who took the initiative.† (source)initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
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Within Paradice, said Crake — and they'd visit the facility after lunch — there were two major initiatives going forward.† (source)initiatives = things that were started or proposed
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Also, the individual soldiers were given little initiative.† (source)initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
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Mr. Nielsen is a member of the chamber of commerce, and conversations often include discussion of initiatives and plans for stimulating business in this "unruly" economy, as he calls it.† (source)initiatives = things that were started or proposed
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Started in 1964 as a federal initiative, Job Corps was designed to help disadvantaged youth.† (source)initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
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These theories were not only logical; they were also encouraging, for they attributed the crime drop to specific and recent human initiatives.† (source)initiatives = things that were started or proposed
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Such initiative would be rewarded with a blindfold and a cigarette.† (source)initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
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So around they swirled for hours-she, searching for emotions in him that she had long feared were absent, looking for something, anything, that might have bonded them together around the idea of a child; he, blunting her initiatives, seemingly telling her everything but the truth.† (source)initiatives = things that were started or proposed
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So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future.† (source)initiative = the ability and tendency to determine what should be done and to start doing it without instruction; or to start something
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The really remarkable thing, and Rambert was greatly struck by this, was the way in which, in the very midst of catastrophe, offices could go on functioning serenely and take initiatives of no immediate relevance, and often unknown to the highest authority, purely and simply because they had been created originally for this purpose.† (source)initiatives = things that were started or proposed
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