Self-starter

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.

    "Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M^([sic]) (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family."

  2. 2
    an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine wordnet
  3. 3
    A mechanism (usually one operated by electricity, compressed air, a spring, or an explosive gas), attached to an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, and used as a means of starting the engine without cranking it by hand.
  4. 4
    an energetic person with unusual initiative wordnet
  5. 5
    An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.

    "His ancient Cadillac was one of the first self-starters."

Etymology

From self- + starter.

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