to leapfrog
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4.6
- verb
- /ˈliːpfrɔɡ/
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- It's a country where a vast amount needs to be done, but it can also leapfrog straight to the latest technology.
How can I remove those barriers, the things that those tribal knowledge blocks and help others just leapfrog the stupid stuff.
- How can I remove those barriers, the things that those tribal knowledge blocks and help others just leapfrog the stupid stuff.
- So the way you leapfrog right is you come up with an idea or you take a direction, perhaps secretly that the other people aren't taking.
- We'd sort of leapfrog over what the problem is because you're back to really getting the people back into thinking about the solutions with you.
Examples
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Hospitals that are in the bottom quartile can leapfrog to the top quartile with only a 20 percent improvement over current performance.
Blog text (28) -
And so they could leapfrog and get telephone service for the first time.
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If I can do all that, I can model them and leapfrog years of experience, leapfrog years of pain.
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Poor nations need the support of the rich to leapfrog to the new system.
Academic text (1999) -
At its current growth rates, China could easily leapfrog to second rank in 2004.
Academic text (2003) -
If we could provide electrical infrastructure and power generated from the top of the energy ladder, they could leapfrog a generation of energy technology and move towards energy efficiency early.
Blog text (33) -
Immigrant parents who were able and willing to encourage their children in school were able to use the growth of new technology industries to leapfrog directly into the middle class.
Academic text (2002) -
Instead of being daunted by the scale of this challenge, policymakers must recognize the scale of the opportunity: developing countries have the potential to leapfrog the developed world's process of industrialization, thereby providing an enormous opportunity to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions.
Academic text (2004) -
They won't beat the Volt in that game, but they can leapfrog GM and others into EREV CUV and SUV stardom.
Blog text (11) -
In recent years, some countries have managed to leapfrog outdated technology and adopt the latest innovations directly.
Synonyms
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2.1
To rise suddenly by a large amount
To suddenly move ahead of competitors by making a big improvement
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
How Sudden
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5.1
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3.7
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4.6
- Specialized
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3.7
905
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Leapfrog used for fast progress comes from the picture of jumping over others in the game, so to leapfrog in work or technology is to make a big jump forward instead of slow steps. This is why people say a company or country can leapfrog its competitors or stages.