Dictionary

lead the way en · VERB

Meanings

1. (literally) To proceed first in a journey, procession, etc., so that others can follow.
2. (figuratively) To act as a guide or pioneer.
   • The Americans led the way in the postwar years, but UK, Continental European and Japanese companies have followed […] 2005, Alan Montefiore, David Vines, Integrity in the Public and Private Domains, page 277:
   • Network Rail's East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) should lead the way for a national digital signalling programme and other major schemes under the new Great British Railways public body. 2022 January 26, “Network News: RIA lauds East Coast programme as default model for GBR”, in RAIL, number 949, page 11:
   • The native-born and the "naturalised" locomotives have been giving way to the standardised types, of which the L.M.S.R. class "5" 4-6-0 has led the way and has penetrated the furthest. 1958 July 14, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:

Forms

Antonyms

bring up the rear (antonym(s) of “to go first”)

Translations (7)

es guiar (to go first) · pl prowadzić (to go first) · bg вървя отпред (to go first) · es ir adelante / primero (to go first) · es te sigo (to go first) · ru веду́щий (to go first) · pl poprowadzić (to go first)