pioneer has definitions from the field of work
1
[ verb ] open up an area or prepare a way

Synonyms

open_up

Examples

"She pioneered a graduate program for women students"

Used in print

(Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)

At the present time the research team which pioneered this new technique is primarily interested in advancing and perfecting it .

Related terms

introduce

2
[ noun ] (work) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

But it is also true that Braque was the consistent pioneer in the use of simulated textures as_well_as of typography ; and moreover , he had already begun to broaden and simplify the facet-planes of Analytical_Cubism as far back as the end of 1910 .

Related terms

originator introduce

3
[ noun ] one the first colonists or settler in a new territory

Examples

"they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

But Thorpe saw also the hardships of pioneer existence , the cultural poverty of the frontier_settlements , and the slack morality which abounded in the new regions .

4
[ verb ] open up and explore a new area

Examples

"pioneer space"

Related terms

explore

5
[ verb ] take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

Synonyms

initiate

Examples

"This South African surgeon pioneered heart transplants"

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