definition of the word leader

lead + -er

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  Rhymes: -iːdə(r)

leader (plural leaders)

1. A person or thing that leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor. Especially:

   (a) One who goes first.

   (b) One having authority to direct; a chief; a commander.

   (c) (music) A performer who leads a band or choir in music; also, in an orchestra, the principal violinist; the one who plays at the head of the first violins.

   (d) (nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

   (e) (engineering) (obsolete) The principal wheel in any kind of machinery. (G. Francis)

   (f) A horse placed in advance of others; one of the forward pair of horses.

   Quotations

   • He forgot to pull in his leaders, and they gallop away with him at times. - Hare?

   (g) A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground; a conductor.

   (h) (fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.

   (i) (fishing) A section of line between the main fly line and the snell, to which the snell of a fly hook is attached.

   (j) (Mining): A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.

2. A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
3. (In UK English) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article.
4. (printing)

   (a) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.

   (b) (plural):. a row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.

5. (UK parliament) Leader of the House
6. (filmology) A piece of blank film at the beginning of a movie to allow the film to be threaded in the projector.
7. A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.

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