Usually means: Initiates tasks without external prompting.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word self-starter:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-starter: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-starter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. self-starter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. self-starter, self-starter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. self-starter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Self-starter, self-starter: Wordnik
  7. self-starter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. self-starter: Wiktionary
  9. self-starter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. self-starter: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. self-starter: Dictionary.com
  12. self-starter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. self-starter: Rhymezone
  14. self-starter: FreeDictionary.org
  15. self-starter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. self-starter: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. self-starter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. self-starter: Netlingo
  2. self-starter: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. self-starter, self-starter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A person who shows initiative and resourcefulness.
noun:  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.
noun:  An engine so equipped, or the vehicle that it powers.

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