English Explanatory Dictionary

first mover

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.
  2. An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology.

Word forms

first mover first movers

Etymology

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

Derived words

first-mover disadvantage
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