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first mover

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.21 in modern English

Syllables
first -mover
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.

noun

An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology.

Example Sentences

Etymology

The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).

Inflected Forms

first movers (plural)

Phrases

first-mover disadvantage

Questions

What does first mover mean?
The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.
Where does first mover come from?
The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).

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