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adopter

adopter

16 3.9
A person or company who starts using a new product before most people
  • noun
  • /əˈdɑptər/
translation icon : adoptante
  • The British arts educator was an early adopter of e-portfolios, seeing their potential to enhance teaching and learning.
  • early adopters
  • potential adopters
  • new adopters

And so when I learned about this, I realized that the way you talk to the early adopters is by starting with why?

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Examples

  • Thanks for engaging in this conversation with me and sharing your thoughts on the early adopter work.

    Academic text (2015)
  • Innovators often seek support from early adopters who are eager to try out their groundbreaking ideas.

  • So companies can still enter, become the early adopter in their sectors and get the benefits that normally go with that.

  • I was an early adopter of being an over share on social media and that felt really radical.

  • Teachers Reflect on the Early Adopter Program to Implement the Common Core State Standards.

    Academic text (2015)
  • So I'm a late but sort of recent adopter of finding more interesting curated news sources.

  • The recent boom in EV sales was led by technology enthusiasts and early adopters, the kind of people who love having the latest new technology.

  • A few classroom teachers became early adopters and used the learning commons as an expansion to their current classrooms.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Berwick (2003) argued that finding and supporting early adopters is crucial to effective diffusion within the health care community.

    Academic text (2015)
  • AND WE HAVE TO STAND TALL AND PROUD AS BITCOINERS AND EARLY ADOPTERS.

Antonyms

1 4.0

A person who refuses to accept an idea or plan

How Early

innovator
38 4.3
adopter
16 3.9
laggard
4 8.1

Surface Forms

adopter singular
adopters plural

Morphology

adopter = adopt (transparent) = adopt + er

The agentive '-er' creates 'one who adopts' and this meaning extends transparently to people or organizations that take up new ideas or technologies.

Etymology

Adopter comes from the Latin parts ad- 'to' and optare 'choose', the same root as opt and option. That's why an adopter can be someone who 'chooses to take up' a new idea, product, or technology early.