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starter | American Dictionary

starter
noun[ C ]
us/ˈstɑrt̬·ər/
a person, thing, or organization that is involved at the beginning of an activity, esp. a race:
Only four of the ten starters finished the race.

Examples of starter

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By the end of the third year only 50% of the original starters have not left.
Of the 51 chronic offenders, 11 had not been early starters.
One reason that organ players are late starters may be that the organ, like the double bass, requires a certain level of physical development.
The implication from these results is that prevention efforts are actually more effective with those more at risk (and, presumably, early starters).
Differences in the impact of parenting, personality, and peer group on criminal justice system involvement for early versus late starters.
The two books together might make a challenging exercise as starters in methodological approaches for upper-division and graduate-level seminars.
Just for starters, we have the following corollary.
In the absence of significant parties, nominations could be won by charismatic self-starters who could project an acceptable image.
Of particular interest are the lesson starters and extensions.
The findings are consistent with the idea that the majority of chronic offenders had been early starters.
Since most congressional candidates are self-starters who win a nomination in direct primaries, party leaders have little direct control over who wins the right to be the party's standard-bearer.
Assuming that the system correctly understands the question, it can return the failure of the number 2 engine starter as the cause.
Both early starter and late starter pathways were considered.
Consequently, these results may underrepresent the diversity of pathways to adolescent externalizing problems, particularly early-starter pathways, and may underestimate the magnitude of the predictor variables.
However, many ' 'late' ' starters have reached high levels of achievement.
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electric starter
It combines a high-efficiency fuel-injected single-cylinder engine, that features an electric starter, double-overhead cams, and a counterbalancer; with a comfortable, neutral seating position.
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