Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.

    an energetic person with unusual initiative

  2. 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.

    an electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine

  3. An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.

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

Forms

plural: self-starters
Singularself-starter
Pluralself-starters

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words

See also

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