Initiative vs Collaboration - What's the difference?
initiative | collaboration |
A beginning; a first move.
A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
The ability to act first or on one's own.
An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
* John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions , , ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
(uncountable) The act of collaborating.
(countable) A production or creation made by collaborating.
(uncountable) Treasonous cooperation.
As nouns the difference between initiative and collaboration
is that initiative is while collaboration is (uncountable) the act of collaborating.initiative
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (issue to be voted on) direct initiativeDerived terms
* direct initiativeAdjective
(-)- The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.
Antonyms
* noninitiativeExternal links
* * * ----collaboration
English
Noun
(en noun)- Collaboration can be a useful part of the creative process.
- The husband-and-wife artists will release their new collaboration in June this year.
- He has been charged with collaboration .
