Meaning

• 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.

Meaning

• Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.

• In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.