Self-starter

Quick meaning: Self-starter is a noun meaning A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.

Meaning

A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.

More Meanings

1. An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
2. A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.

Example Sentences

His ancient Cadillac was one of the first self-starters.

The grey Bentley convertible, the 1933 4½-litre with the Amherst-Villiers supercharger, had been brought round a few minutes earlier from the garage where he kept it and the engine had kicked directly he pressed the self-starter.

Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M^([sic]) (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.

Word Forms

• self-starters

Synonyms for self-starter

Depending on context, synonyms include starter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include starter, go-getter, entrepreneur, self-seeker, bootstrapper, beginner.

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