initiator

Example Sentences

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Payment initiators, according to Brazil's central bank, initiate a transaction ordered by the final user but never manage the payment account, nor hold the funds of the transactions.

From Reuters

“He’s somebody who is an initiator, a man of ideas.”

From New York Times

"We see one person being the initiator and one person responding."

From Salon

"As the initiator and main instigator of the Ukrainian crisis, Washington, while imposing unprecedented comprehensive sanctions on Russia, continues to supply arms and military equipment to Ukraine," Zhang was quoted as saying.

From Reuters

“It still holds water, now more as a historical document — an initiator, if you will, of a strain of history that is now widely accepted.”

From Washington Post