self-starter

1. 1.

   an energetic person with unusual initiative

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2. 2.

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

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Questions about self-starter

What does self-starter mean?

self-starter means "an energetic person with unusual initiative". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in self-starter?

self-starter has 3 syllables: self--star-ter. The stress falls on "self-".

Is self-starter a common word?

self-starter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.