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1. Readiness to embark on bold new ventures
   - enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead
    
2. The first of a series of actions
   - first step, opening move, opening

1. Serving to set in motion
   "the initiative phase in the negotiations"
   - inaugural, initiatory, first, maiden

Derived forms: initiatives

See also: initiate, opening

Type of: beginning, commencement, drive, start

Encyclopedia: Initiative