Pacesetter

Quick meaning: Pacesetter is a noun meaning One who or that which determines the rate of action through leading.

Meaning

One who or that which determines the rate of action through leading.

Example Sentences

It’s all been a dreadful embarrassment, but why should anyone outside Germany be concerned? Because Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and intellectual seriousness and toward the easier comforts of togetherness, advocacy and fun.

Word Forms

• pacesetters
• pace-setter
• pace setter

Synonyms for pacesetter

Depending on context, synonyms include pacemaker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pacemaker, guide, model, pace-setter, tasksetter, speeder.

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