initiative🔊

(archaic) Serving to initiate. +

(US) In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.

A beginning; a first move.

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

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

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