PIONEER


Meaning of PIONEER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ paɪənɪə(r) ]

( pioneers, pioneering, pioneered)

1.

Someone who is referred to as a pioneer in a particular area of activity is one of the first people to be involved in it and develop it.

...one of the leading pioneers of British photo journalism...

N-COUNT : oft N of/in n , N n

2.

Someone who pioneers a new activity, invention, or process is one of the first people to do it.

...Professor Alec Jeffreys, who invented and pioneered DNA tests...

...the folk-tale writing style pioneered by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

VERB : V n , V-ed

3.

Pioneers are people who leave their own country or the place where they were living, and go and live in a place that has not been lived in before.

...abandoned settlements of early European pioneers.

N-COUNT

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