Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to pioneers; serving to pioneer: as, a pioneering expedition.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of pioneer.
- n. activity of pioneering
- n. A scoutcraft skill that involves building structures using staves and knots
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. groundbreaking; originating; -- of efforts that begin work in a field or on a topic not previously widely known.
Examples
“Back in the 70s (what I called my pioneering years), when the world was circuit switched and flat, and when the ARPAnet was running on minicomputers over 4. 8Kbps lines (not a typo), I was part of the team mandated to develop a carrier-grade packet switch that could support 56”
“On Wednesday, Chief Executive Mike Duke touted Mr. Holley's strong role in pioneering the company's international expansion.”
“For a time I joined my Dad in pioneering the Evangelical anti-abortion Religious Right movement.”
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“With over ten years of experience in pioneering genomic research and genome-wide mapping and association studies, Dr. Hakonarson had the intimate knowledge of the complexities of large-scale genomics projects and he has put together the necessary infrastructure and workflow processes to unravel these complexities in his role as the Director of the Center for Applied Genomics.”
“I'm afraid that the illegal drug distribution community is far ahead on pioneering the code word "babies" to represent kilograms.”
“Secure Trading specialises in pioneering pay online technology, becoming one of the first independent suppliers in the UK to provide internet payment services.”
“It was Ray who first used the phrase "cultural creatives" to describe a significant segment of the American population that he identified as pioneering, or otherwise contributing to, a newly emergent integralist culture in the United States...”
“Reines has also been engaged in pioneering experiments probing decay modes of the proton.”
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“The private broadcasters were not willing to risk their monies in pioneering a field in which they could not even be assured free competition, absolute security and respect for prior rights.”
“But by and large Kaya is a long-term pioneering skincare movement.”
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