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first mover

noun

Etymology

The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).

Definitions

  1. The initial agent that is the cause of all things

    The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.

    • The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare, Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps, Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen, Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.

  2. An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed…

    An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for first mover. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA