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frontrunner

noun

Etymology

From front + runner.

  1. inherited from rennere
  2. formed as frontrunner — “front + runner”

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of front runner.

    • “Republican frontrunner Donald Trump used a campaign stop in Michigan on Monday to make astonishingly sexist attacks against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton,” the left-leaning ThinkProgress wrote.
    • The Conservative leadership frontrunner, Liz Truss, has rejected “handouts” as a way of helping people affected by the cost of living crisis.

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