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What does assertive mean?

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Adjective
  1. boldly self-assured; confident without being aggressive
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He insists that while assertive management is needed, there is no place for aggression or bullying.
She's assertive, aggressive, totally on top of her game and yet what happens to her is absurd.
If you're looking for something a little more assertive, try the half-Windsor knot, a modest version of the Windsor knot.
I have no problem in chatting up beautiful women, and I am in certain cases the assertive alpha male.
On top of abuse, midwives also face a far more assertive and confident middle class mother than they did even 15 years ago.
It showed that she was finding it very hard to be assertive, and her son was confused by his mother's contradictory signals.

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