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lead·ing (led′iŋ)

noun

  1. a covering or being covered with lead
  2. strips or sheets of lead, collectively
leading2 definition

lead·ing (lēd′iŋ)

noun

the action of one that leads; guidance; direction; leadership

adjective

  1. that leads; guiding
  2. principal; chief
  3. playing the lead in a play, film, etc.

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Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

leading Synonyms

leading

modif.

  1. Principal

    foremost, chief, preeminent; see best 1, principal.

  2. First

    front, head, advance; see first 1.


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leading Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • spirit: Yearly Meeting stresses that central to a meeting must always be constant discernment of the leadings of the Spirit.

Modifies a noun

  • provider: Leonard Cheshire is the leading charity provider of services for disabled people in the UK.

Used with adjective complement

  • leave: For the short cut take the flight of steps immediately down to your left leading into Via di Porta S. Pancrazio.
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leading quotes

I am persuaded now that I have a better prospect than MrsThatcher of leading the Conservatives to a fourth electoral victoryand preventing the ultimate calamity of a Labour government.

-Heseltine, Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron

He passed rapidly through his marriages toVirginia Cherrill,Barbara Huttonand Betsy Drakeand filled inthe lonely gaps between them by falling in and out of love with most of his leading ladies, which, as his output of films was prodigious, underlined the excellence of his physical condition.

-Niven, David originally James David Graham Nevins

I can't tell who's leadingöit's either Oxford or Cambridge.

-Snagge,John

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