Definitions for front-runner

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front-runner front runner

Front-Runner is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in front-runner (-efnnnorrrtu).

Definitions for front-runner

noun

1. a person who leads in any competition.
2. an entrant in a race who breaks to the front immediately and establishes the pace for the field.
3. an entrant in a race who performs well only when ahead of the field.

Origin of front-runner

An Americanism dating back to 1935-40

Examples for front-runner

Certainly, if immigation reform does pass, he overtakes Ryan and all the others as the front runner for 2016.

The 2008 GOP presidential flameout Mitt Romney is the 2012 GOP front runner, or so conventional wisdom has it.

Just ask the 2006-2007 presidential “front runner” Rudy Giuliani how that early status worked out for him.

Now the object of their attention is suddenly the front runner in Iowa, and a leading contender for the 2012 GOP nomination.