adj.
Leading is used with these nouns: ↑ actor, actress , ↑ advocate , ↑ analyst , ↑ architect , ↑ article , ↑ artist , ↑ authority , ↑ barrister , ↑ brand , ↑ businessman, businesswoman , ↑ campaigner , ↑ candidate , ↑ cause , ↑ centre , ↑ character , ↑ citizen , ↑ company , ↑ competitor , ↑ composer , ↑ Congressman, Congresswoman , ↑ contender , ↑ contributor , ↑ counsel , ↑ critic , ↑ dancer , ↑ designer , ↑ developer , ↑ dissident , ↑ distributor , ↑ economist , ↑ expert , ↑ exponent , ↑ exporter , ↑ figure , ↑ historian , ↑ indicator , ↑ industrialist , ↑ jockey , ↑ journal , ↑ journalist , ↑ killer , ↑ lady , ↑ lawyer , ↑ lender , ↑ liberal , ↑ magazine , ↑ man , ↑ manufacturer , ↑ member , ↑ nation , ↑ newspaper , ↑ novelist , ↑ opponent , ↑ painter , ↑ part , ↑ participant , ↑ personality , ↑ philosopher , ↑ photographer , ↑ physicist , ↑ player , ↑ politician , ↑ producer , ↑ professional , ↑ psychiatrist , ↑ psychologist , ↑ publication , ↑ publisher , ↑ question , ↑ representative , ↑ researcher , ↑ retailer , ↑ rival , ↑ role , ↑ scholar , ↑ scientist , ↑ sculptor , ↑ senator , ↑ socialist , ↑ specialist , ↑ spirit , ↑ statesman , ↑ stockbroker , ↑ supermarket , ↑ supplier , ↑ supporter , ↑ surgeon , ↑ textbook , ↑ thinker , ↑ university , ↑ writer