Cross Border Initiative

cross Verb

— If you cross something, you go from one side of it to the other side. Don't cross the street until the light turns green. We can cross the river at the bridge, or we can get wet. — If you cross something, you put one part over another perpendicularly. She crossed her ankles: she put one foot on the other side of the other foot. — If you cross someone, you do something that the person does not like. Don't cross me. Make sure to agree with me. — If you cross, you go in a path that will intersect with someone else's path. Boats crossing from starboard have right-of-way.

cross Noun

— A cross is a figure made of two straight lines or bars that intersect each other such that at least one of them bisects the other. In Christianity, the death of Jesus is represented by a cross.

cross Adjective

— Someone who is cross is angry or annoyed. Jill spoke to me rudely because she was cross.

border Noun

— The border of a country is the edge of the country: the place where that country touches another country. You can't cross the border without identification papers. — The border of a shape or of a picture or of part of a picture is the edge of it. She drew three pink hearts with red borders at the top of the picture.

border Verb

— If something is bordered with or in something, that goes all around it. The newspaper notice was bordered in black. — If one place borders on another, they are side by side. The Sea of Japan is bordered by Japan, North Korea, Russia and South Korea.

initiative Noun

— If you have or take the initiative, you are in control and can decide what to do next. It's good to see someone take the initiative and start doing something about this problem. It appears that the army was acting on its own initiative and not on orders from the president. — If you have initiative, you do things without needing to be told to do them. We're looking to hire somebody with initiative because I won't be able to supervise them much. — An initiative is an effort to start doing something to solve a problem. The town has no new initiatives to deal with garbage.