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Definition of In the lead

1. Adjective. Having the leading position or higher score in a contest. "The leading team in the pennant race"

2. Adverb. Leading or ahead in a competition. "The advertising campaign put them out front in sales"

Definition of In the lead

1. Adjective. (idiomatic) in first position in a competition ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of In The Lead

in the first place in the flesh in the flesh(p) in the future in the game in the gristle in the groove in the head in the here and now in the hopper

in the hospital in the hot seat in the know in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king in the last analysis in the lead (current term) in the least in the light of in the limelight in the long run

in the long term in the loop in the lurch in the main in the making in the mean time in the meantime in the middle in the midst in the mind

Literary usage of In the lead

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Thus the level of the lead is kept approximately constant, and the silver becomes concentrated in the lead. In large works the silver-lead alloy is removed ..."

2. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1902)
"none whatever for lead, showing the bismuth salt to be contained in the lead thiocyanate crystals as impurities which can be removed by crystallization. ..."

3. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"... characteristic of the element, in part upon the concentration of the element in the lead, and in part on the properties of the associated elements. ..."

4. Lead and Zinc in the United States: Comprising an Economic History of the by Walter Renton Ingalls (1908)
"... however, any copper that may remain in the lead will alloy with the zinc and its removal can be thus effected. For this purpose, Missouri lead has been ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and amount of the flux necessarily depend upon the character <i the ore, the object being to concentrate in the lead button ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"&i far as in the ordinary process; it may be arrested when only half per cent of anti- »ony remains in the lead. The arsenic having tW _'t\';iu--t tendency ..."

7. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Thus the level of the lead is kept approximately constant, and the silver becomes concentrated in the lead. In large works the silver-lead alloy is removed ..."

8. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1902)
"none whatever for lead, showing the bismuth salt to be contained in the lead thiocyanate crystals as impurities which can be removed by crystallization. ..."

9. Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis: A Manual of Analytical Methods and by Wilfred Welday Scott (1922)
"... characteristic of the element, in part upon the concentration of the element in the lead, and in part on the properties of the associated elements. ..."

10. Lead and Zinc in the United States: Comprising an Economic History of the by Walter Renton Ingalls (1908)
"... however, any copper that may remain in the lead will alloy with the zinc and its removal can be thus effected. For this purpose, Missouri lead has been ..."

11. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and amount of the flux necessarily depend upon the character <i the ore, the object being to concentrate in the lead button ..."

12. Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events (1875)
"&i far as in the ordinary process; it may be arrested when only half per cent of anti- »ony remains in the lead. The arsenic having tW _'t\';iu--t tendency ..."

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