spearhead
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈspɪrˌhɛd/
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vanguardia
- As the spearhead of the environmental movement, she organized numerous protests to raise awareness.
Examples
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And it's the spearhead of this squadron to whom the people of Great Britain have a great debt of gratitude.
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Air power became the spearhead of attack... blasting clear a path for his ground forces.
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At the same time, the convention should be the spearhead of conservation practice.
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Where's the spearhead of the German advance right now?
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It is the spearhead of an international conservation ethic.
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This alliance is the spearhead of delegitimizing Israel as an apartheid regime through international isolation.
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Lenovo insists that the facility isn't a publicity stunt, but merely the spearhead of a long-term investment in the US.
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"Scientists and engineers are at the spearhead of China's economic development," Mu Rongping, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Policy and Management, told the South China Morning Post last year.
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Essentially, libertarians who decided they would spread their vision of liberty more effectively as part of the GOP than as members of the Libertarian Party were the spearhead of the Ron Paul presidential candidacy in 2012.
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This grassroots initiative gained momentum in 1998, when, in response to a petition by a group of black women, the newly appointed Minister of Integration and Urban Policy, Roger van Boxtel, took up the cause of a national slavery monument and made it a spearhead issue in his effort to promote the social integration of ethnic minorities.
Academic text (2004)
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who guides and directs a group, organization, or country
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7.2
People at the front leading a movement or new idea
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7.1
A soldier who goes at the front of a group to look for danger
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Morphology
Etymology
Spearhead came to be used for people or groups 'at the front' because the spear's head is the part that goes first and breaks the way. So a spearhead today is a unit or person who leads an attack or movement.