Initiative vs Product - What's the difference?
initiative | product |
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]:
A commodity offered for sale.
Any preparation to be applied to the hair, skin, nails, etc.
Anything that is produced; a result.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
* (Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
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# The amount of an artifact that has been created by someone or some process.
# A consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances.
# (label) A chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction.
# (arithmetic) A quantity obtained by multiplication of two or more numbers.
# (label) Any operation or a result thereof which generalises multiplication of numbers, like the multiplicative operation in a ring, product of types or a categorical product.
# Any tangible or intangible good or service that is a result of a process and that is intended for delivery to a customer or end user.
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Illegal drugs, especially cocaine, when viewed as a commodity.
As nouns the difference between initiative and product
is that initiative is while product is a commodity offered for sale.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
* * * ----product
English
Noun
- the product of those ill-mated marriages.
- These institutions are the products of enthusiasm.