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Definition of Self-starter

1. Noun. An energetic person with unusual initiative.

2. Noun. An electric starting motor that automatically starts an internal-combustion engine.

Definition of Self-starter

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

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-starter

self-seeded self-seeker self-seeking self-selection self-selections self-serve self-service self-serving self-similar self-similarities

self-similarity self-slaughter self-soar self-sowed self-sown self-starter (current term) self-starters self-starting self-statement self-sterile

self-stimulation self-storage self-study self-styled self-sufficiency self-sufficient self-sufficing self-suggestion self-support self-supporting

Literary usage of Self-starter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cassier's Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02877163] (1908)
"In connection with motor-driven pumps and air compressors the self- starter finds one of its widest fields of usefulness. By means of a switch operated by a ..."

2. A Textbook on Gas, Oil, and Air Engines: Or, Internal Combustion Motors by Bryan Donkin (1894)
"The Lanchester Patent Self Starter is a simple but ingenious device for starting gas engines of any size, with or without compression ..."

3. Methods of Teaching Typewriting by Rupert Pitt So Relle (1919)
"The Remington self-starter: The self-starter should be thoroughly studied and the use of it established as early in the practice as possible. ..."

4. The Automobile Book: A Practical Treatise on the Construction, Operation and by Charles E. Duryea, James Edward Homans (1915)
"The Problem of the Self-Starter.— Like most problems of the automobile, the self-starter ... Hard work made motorists reflect, and so the self-starter found ..."

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