Solution vs Initiative - What's the difference?
solution | initiative |
A homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances.
An act, plan or other means, used or proposed, to solve a problem.
The answer to a problem.
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(legal, UK, archaic, rare) Satisfaction of a claim or debt.
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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]:
As nouns the difference between solution and initiative
is that solution is a homogeneous mixture, which may be liquid, gas or solid, formed by dissolving one or more substances while initiative is a beginning; a first move.As an adjective initiative is
serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.solution
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Then I had a good think on the subject of the hocussing of Cigarette, and I was reluctantly bound to admit that once again the man in the corner had found the only possible solution to the mystery.}}
Antonyms
* probleminitiative
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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.