Meaning

2 senses

  1. (idiomatic)One who is the most likely winner in a contest, election, etc.

    Spitzenreiter, Favorit, Spitzenkandidat

    ли́дерlíder

  2. One who engages in front running.

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tom is the front-runner in polls.

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  2. Tom is the front-runner for this job.

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  3. Tom is the front-runner, based on polls.

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  4. Although he is the front-runner, the president is just one of 17 candidates running for the post.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
most likely winner in a contest, election, etc.:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
most likely winner in a contest, election, etc.:

Forms

plural: front runners

Word family

3 related words
Relatedfront running
Derivedfront runfrontrunneritis

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
frontA2frontalfrontierB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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