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pacesetters

pacesetters is the plural 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

Questions about pacesetters

What is pacesetters the plural of?
Pacesetters is the plural of pacesetter.

Words near pacesetters in the dictionary

  1. paces
  2. paces off
  3. paces oneself
  4. paces out
  5. pacesetter
  6. pacesetters
  7. pacesetting
  8. paceth
  9. Pacetti
  10. Pacettis
  11. paceway

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