Usually means: Leading candidate in a race.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word front-runner:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. front-runner: Merriam-Webster
  2. front-runner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. front-runner: Vocabulary.com
  4. Front-Runner, Front-runner, front-runner: Wordnik
  5. front-runner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. front-runner: Wiktionary
  7. front-runner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. front-runner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. front-runner: Dictionary.com
  10. front-runner: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Front-runner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. front-runner: Rhymezone
  13. front-runner: FreeDictionary.org
  14. front-runner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. front-runner: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. front-runner: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. front-runner: Idioms

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▸ noun:  Alternative form of front runner [(idiomatic) Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.]

Similar:
Favorite, favourite, prize winner, runnerup, champion in chief, stakewinner, front bencher, flag bearer, worldbeater, runner up, more...

Opposite:
underdog, dark horse, outsider

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Similar:
Favorite, favourite, prize winner, runnerup, champion in chief, stakewinner, front bencher, flag bearer, worldbeater, runner up, more...

Opposite:
underdog, dark horse, outsider



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