Meaning of initiative in English

COLLOCATIONS with initiative

initiative

These are words often used in combination with initiative.
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ballot initiative
On the one hand, the media could take credit for publicising the seventh ballot initiative and introducing the students and their frame to a broad national public.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
bold initiative
Plague induced a widespread elite consensus that a bold initiative was required to 'clean up' the city.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
conservation initiative
Any conservation initiative that raises the value of intact ecosystems may increase the demand of outsiders to secure rights to these ecosystems.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
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Collocations with initiative
These are words often used in combination with initiative.
Click on a collocation to see more examples of it.
ballot initiative
On the one hand, the media could take credit for publicising the seventh ballot initiative and introducing the students and their frame to a broad national public.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
bold initiative
Plague induced a widespread elite consensus that a bold initiative was required to 'clean up' the city.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
conservation initiative
Any conservation initiative that raises the value of intact ecosystems may increase the demand of outsiders to secure rights to these ecosystems.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
diplomatic initiative
They had the moral and diplomatic initiative in the business of peacemaking and disarmament offers.
From the 
Hansard archive
educational initiative
The objective of the educational initiative was to review the guidelines with the prescriber and offer alternative antibiotics.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
enterprise initiative
The enterprise initiative is about small businesses.
From the 
Hansard archive
entrepreneurial initiative
One of its principal goals was to improve entrepreneurial initiative.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
environmental initiative
The growth and environmental initiative has not received any more funds.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 
green initiative
Does he further accept that the public will not support generalised and indiscriminate tax increases that are simply disguised as green initiatives?
From the 
Hansard archive
health initiative
For example, a women's health initiative was implemented to develop programmes and policies that were more responsive to women's health needs.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
individual initiative
With its emphasis on individual initiative and action, anarchism provided a suitable cover for the individuals who made up the incontrolats.
From the Cambridge English Corpus 
innovative initiative
To display this, we here take just one innovative initiative.