first mover

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.
    — The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare, Enchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps, Will ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen, Then ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.
  2. An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology.

词形变化

first movers plural

词源

The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).
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