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bleading edge

bleading edge noun: at the forefront of practice or technology.

Noun

bleading edge (uncountable)

  1. (rare) At the forefront of practice or technology.
    • The objectives of this chapter are to reveal some "bleading edge" aspects of accounting and billing strategies...2009, Malgorzata Pankowska, Infonomics for Distributed Business and Decision-Making Environments, page 178

Origin of bleading edge

*Blend of leading edge + bleeding edge

Questions about bleading edge

What does bleading edge mean?
Bleading edge means at the forefront of practice or technology.
What part of speech is bleading edge?
Bleading edge is a noun.

Words near bleading edge in the dictionary

  1. bleachworks
  2. bleachy
  3. bleachyard
  4. bleachyards
  5. blead
  6. bleading edge
  7. Bleadon
  8. bleah
  9. bleak
  10. bleaken
  11. bleakened

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