Usually means: Leading candidate in a race.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word front runner:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. front-runner: Merriam-Webster
  2. front runner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. front-runner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. front runner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. front-runner: Vocabulary.com
  6. Front-Runner, Front-runner, front-runner: Wordnik
  7. front-runner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. front-runner, front runner: Wiktionary
  9. front-runner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. front-runner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. front runner: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. front-runner, front runner: Dictionary.com
  13. front-runner: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Front Runner, Front-runner, The Front Runner (film), The Front Runner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. front-runner: Rhymezone
  16. front-runner: FreeDictionary.org
  17. front-runner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. front-runner, front runner: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. front runner: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. front-runner: Idioms
  2. front runner: Wordcraft Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (front runner)

noun:  (idiomatic) Any of the most likely winners in a contest, election, etc.
noun:  (finance, business) One who engages in front running.

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