Initiative vs Execution - What's the difference?
initiative | execution |
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]:
The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
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The state of being executed (accomplished).
The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
(legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
(legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
As nouns the difference between initiative and execution
is that initiative is while execution is execution.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
* * * ----execution
English
Noun
(en noun)- The battle plan was successfully executed .
- The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .
- Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.
