Initiative vs Programme - What's the difference?
initiative | programme |
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]:
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* 1961 , New Scientist (volume 9, number 226, page 679)
(UK) (verb )
As nouns the difference between initiative and programme
is that initiative is a beginning; a first move while programme is uK alternative form of lang=en.As an adjective initiative
is serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.As a verb programme is
uK alternative form of lang=en (verb.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
* * * ----programme
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus once a computer programme has been prepared, vastly different conditions can be inserted and experimented with at the expense of a few hours of computer time.
