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lead-off

[leed-awf, -of]

adjective

  1. leading off or beginning.

    the lead-off item on the agenda.



lead off

/ ː /

verb

  1. to initiate the action of (something); begin

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an initial move or action

  2. a person or thing that begins something

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lead-off1

First recorded in 1885–90; adj. use of verb phrase lead off
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Idioms and Phrases

Begin, start, go first. For example, We have a panel of three speakers, so will you lead off? [c. 1800]
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The junior center fielder and lead-off batter has come on strong, batting .426 with a team high 11 home runs on a team filled with pro prospects.

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Pinch hitter Taylor Stpehens worked a lead-off walk and came around to score on Kaitlyn Terry’s one-out triple.

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More changes may be coming, though New Hampshire, which has held the first presidential primary for more than a century, may very well hang on to its lead-off spot, which might not be a bad thing for Newsom.

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“A lead-off walk, that never ends well,” Miller said.

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The 19-year-old Pan swam the fastest 100 in history with a time of 46.80 seconds in the lead-off leg of China’s gold medal-winning 4×100 relay team.

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