initiatives
- 1Plural of initiative.
The company funded a dozen environmental initiatives across the region.
Lawmakers debated which initiatives deserved priority in the new budget.
Note
A regular plural, but not every meaning of initiative travels into it. What gets counted is the concrete kind: new programs or fresh approaches to a problem, and the ballot measures citizens bring forward by gathering signatures, as in voter initiatives. The ability to act first or on one's own is a quality rather than a thing, so it usually stays singular: you take the initiative, not initiatives.
initiatives is a form of initiative
initiative, noun: The ability to act first or on one's own, before or without being prompted by others. Full entry
- Forms
- initiativeinitiatives plural
- Spelling
- initiative → initiatives: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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