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pace-setter

pace-setter is the alternative spelling of pacesetter.

Meaning of pacesetter

Noun

pacesetter (plural pacesetters)

  1. One who or that which determines the rate of action through leading.
    • It’s all been a dreadful embarrassment, but why should anyone outside Germany be concerned? Because Documenta was always a pacesetter — and this year’s edition certainly put its finger on a larger shift, seen too in our museums, our art schools and our magazines, away from aesthetic ambition and...2022 September 23, Jason Farago, “The World’s Most Prestigious Art Exhibition Is Over. Maybe Forever.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of pace-setter

pluralpace-setters

Questions about pace-setter

What is pace-setter the alternative spelling of?
Pace-setter is the alternative spelling of pacesetter.

Words near pace-setter in the dictionary

  1. pace-egg
  2. pace-egger
  3. pace-eggers
  4. pace-eggs
  5. pace-of-life syndrome
  6. pace-setter
  7. pace-setters
  8. pace-setting
  9. paceboard
  10. paceboards
  11. paced

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pace-setter (page history and authors); pacesetter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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