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trendsetting

trendsetting adjective: taking a leading role in setting trends, particularly in business or the arts.

Adjective

trendsetting (comparative more trendsetting, superlative most trendsetting)

  1. Taking a leading role in setting trends, particularly in business or the arts
    • By 1989, she was selling to Zona, the trendsetting home-furnishings boutique in SoHo, where customers used to wait in line to get inside on holiday weekends.2007 June 24, Dan Shaw, “An Ancient Studio for an Even Older Craft”, in New York Times

Forms of trendsetting

comparativemore trendsetting
superlativemost trendsetting

Origin of trendsetting

From trend + setting.

Words formed from trendsetting

  • trendsetting rate

Questions about trendsetting

What does trendsetting mean?
Trendsetting means taking a leading role in setting trends, particularly in business or the arts.
What part of speech is trendsetting?
Trendsetting is an adjective.

Words near trendsetting in the dictionary

  1. trendoid
  2. trendoids
  3. trends
  4. trendsetter
  5. trendsetters
  6. trendsetting
  7. trendspotter
  8. trendspotters
  9. trendspotting
  10. trendwatcher
  11. trendwatchers

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