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self-starters

self-starters is the plural of self-starter.

Meaning of self-starter

Noun

self-starter (plural self-starters)

  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...2012 June 3, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
  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.
    • The grey Bentley convertible, the 1933 4½-litre with the Amherst-Villiers supercharger, had been brought round a few minutes earlier from the garage where he kept it and the engine had kicked directly he pressed the self-starter.1954, Ian Fleming, “Interview with M”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 11
    Synonyms:
    starter
  3. An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.
    • His ancient Cadillac was one of the first self-starters.

Questions about self-starters

What is self-starters the plural of?
Self-starters is the plural of self-starter.

Words near self-starters in the dictionary

  1. self-spots
  2. self-spotted
  3. self-spotting
  4. self-standing
  5. self-starter
  6. self-starters
  7. self-starting
  8. self-steering
  9. self-sterile
  10. self-sterility
  11. self-stim

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