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lead-off
[ leed-awf, -of ]
adjective
- leading off or beginning:
the lead-off item on the agenda.
lead off
/ 濒颈藧诲 /
verb
- to initiate the action of (something); begin
noun
- an initial move or action
- a person or thing that begins something
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of lead-off1
Idioms and Phrases
Begin, start, go first. For example, We have a panel of three speakers, so will you lead off? [c. 1800]Example Sentences
鈥淎 lead-off walk, that never ends well,鈥 Miller said.
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鈥檚 gold medal-winning 4脳100 relay team.
Biden won the Democratic primary as a write-in candidate after he kept his name off the ballot in deference to South Carolina鈥檚 new lead-off position for the Democratic primaries.
Now, South Carolina Democrats prepare to vote again in a week, serving for this cycle as the party鈥檚 lead-off primary 鈥 a move both Biden and Clyburn supported.
Biden is not campaigning in New Hampshire and his name will not appear on Tuesday鈥檚 primary ballot after he elevated South Carolina to the lead-off position for the Democratic primaries, but his allies are running a write-in campaign for him in the state.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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