Synonyms of the word

initiative

• adj. Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
• adj. In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
• n. A beginning; a first move.
• n. A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
• n. The ability to act first or on one's own.
• n. An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting…

beginning

• n. (uncountable) The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space…
• n. That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
• n. That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
• n. The initial portion of some extended thing.
• v. present participle of begin.
• adj. (informal) Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.

commencement

• n. The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
• n. The day when degrees are conferred by colleges and universities upon students and others.
• n. A graduation ceremony, from a school, college or university.

drive

• n. Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
• n. Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
• n. An act of driving animals forward, such as to be captured, hunted etc.
• n. (military) A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
• n. A motor that does not take fuel, but instead depends on a mechanism that stores potential energy for subsequent…
• n. A trip made in a motor vehicle.
• n. A driveway.
• n. A type of public roadway.
• n. (dated) A place suitable or agreeable for driving; a road prepared for driving.
• n. (psychology) Desire or interest.
• n. (computing) An apparatus for reading and writing data to or from a mass storage device such as a disk,…
• n. (computing) A mass storage device in which the mechanism for reading and writing data is integrated with…
• n. (golf) A stroke made with a driver.
• n. (baseball, tennis) A ball struck in a flat trajectory.
• n. (cricket) A type of shot played by swinging the bat in a vertical arc, through the line of the ball, and…
• n. (soccer) A straight level shot or pass.
• n. (American football) An offensive possession, generally one consisting of several plays and/ or first downs,…
• n. A charity event such as a fundraiser, bake sale, or toy drive.
• n. (typography) An impression or matrix formed by a punch drift.
• n. A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.
• v. (transitive) To impel or urge onward by force; to push forward; to compel to move on.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To direct a vehicle powered by a horse, ox or similar animal.
• v. (transitive) To cause animals to flee out of.
• v. (transitive) To move (something) by hitting it with great force.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a mechanism) to operate.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).
• v. (transitive) To motivate; to provide an incentive for.
• v. (transitive) To compel (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To cause to become.
• v. (intransitive, cricket, tennis, baseball) To hit the ball with a drive.
• v. (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (transitive) To convey (a person, etc) in a wheeled motorized vehicle.
• v. (intransitive) To move forcefully.
• v. (intransitive) To be moved or propelled forcefully (especially of a ship).
• v. (transitive) To urge, press, or bring to a point or state.
• v. (transitive) To carry or to keep in motion; to conduct; to prosecute.
• v. (transitive) To clear, by forcing away what is contained.
• v. (mining) To dig horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel.
• v. (American football) To put together a drive (n.): to string together offensive plays and advance the ball…
• v. (obsolete) To distrain for rent.
• v. To be the dominant party where two people are engaged in a sex act.

enterprise

• n. A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
• n. An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
• n. A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
• n. An active participation in projects.
• v. (intransitive) To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
• v. (transitive) To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
• v. (transitive) To treat with hospitality; to entertain.

first

• adj. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
• adj. Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
• adv. Before anything else; firstly.
• n. (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
• n. (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
• n. (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
• n. (countable, baseball) first base.
• n. (countable, Britain, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
• n. (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
• n. A fraction of an integer ending in one.
• n. (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

go-ahead

• n. Approval, agreement, or instruction to begin or proceed.
• adj. (sports, not comparable) A score which gives the scoring team or player the lead in the game.
• adj. (comparable) Progressive; exerting leadership.

inaugural

• adj. Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
• adj. Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.
• n. An inauguration; a formal beginning.
• n. A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.

initiatory

• adj. Of or pertaining to initiation.
• adj. inceptive, initial, inaugural or introductory.
• n. An introductory act or rite.

maiden

• n. (now chiefly literary) A girl or an unmarried young woman.
• n. A female virgin.
• n. (obsolete, dialectal) A man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention.
• n. A maidservant.
• n. (now rare) An unmarried woman, especially an older woman.
• n. (horse racing) A racehorse without any victory ('virgin record').
• n. (historical) A Scottish counterpart of the guillotine.
• n. (cricket) A maiden over.
• n. (obsolete) A machine for washing linen.
• n. (Wicca) Alternative form of Maiden.
• adj. Virgin.
• adj. (of a female, human or animal) Without offspring.
• adj. Like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden.
• adj. (figuratively) Being a first occurrence or event.
• adj. (cricket) Being an over in which no runs are scored.
• adj. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
• adj. (of a fortress) Never having been captured or violated.
• adj. (of a tree) Grown from seed and never pruned.

opening

• v. present participle of open.
• n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
• n. Something that is open.
• n. An act or instance of beginning.
• n. Something that is a beginning.
• n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
• n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
• adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

start

• n. The beginning of an activity.
• n. A sudden involuntary movement.
• n. The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
• n. An appearance in a sports game from the beginning of the match.
• n. A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.
• v. (transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.
• v. (intransitive) To begin an activity.
• v. To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.
• v. (intransitive) To break away, to come loose.
• v. (transitive, sports) To put into play.
• v. (nautical) To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
• v. (euphemistic) To start your periods (menstruation).
• n. A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.
• n. A handle, especially that of a plough.
• n. The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.
• n. The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.