Leading

Verb
leading



Adjective

 * 1) Providing guidance or direction.
 * Avoiding leading questions if you really want the truth.
 * 1) Ranking first.
 * He is a leading supplier of plumbing supplies in the county.
 * 1) Occurring in advance; preceding.
 * The stock market can be a leading economic indicator.

Coordinate terms

 * concurrent, lagging

Derived terms

 * leading indicator

Noun

 * 1) An act by which one is led or guided

Noun

 * 1)  Vertical space added between lines; line spacing

Thesaurus
absolute, all-absorbing, antecedent, anterior, arch, ascendant, at the head, authoritarian, authoritative, authority, authorized, autocratic, banner, best, boss, capital, cardinal, central, champion, chief, clothed with authority, command, commanding, competent, conduct, consequential, considerable, control, controlling, crowning, directing, direction, directive, directorial, directory, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, empowered, ex officio, exordial, first, focal, fore, foregoing, forehand, foremost, forward, front, frontal, general, governance, governing, government, great, greatest, guidance, guiding, handling, head, heading, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, husbandry, imperative, important, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, inaugural, influential, initial, initiatory, lead, magisterial, maiden, main, management, managerial, managery, managing, manipulation, master, matchless, mighty, momentous, monocratic, noted, notorious, official, ordering, outstanding, overriding, overruling, paramount, peerless, pilotage, popular, potent, powerful, precedent, preceding, precessional, precursory, predominant, predominate, preeminent, prefatory, preliminary, preludial, prelusive, premier, preparatory, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prestigious, prevailing, prevalent, prevenient, primal, primary, prime, principal, prior, proemial, prominent, propaedeutic, puissant, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulation, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ruling, running, senior, sovereign, star, steerage, steering, stellar, substantial, supereminent, superior, supreme, the conn, the helm, the wheel, topflight, topmost, totalitarian, unsurpassed, uppermost, weighty

Etymology 1
From lædan:, probably a causative form of liþan:.

Etymology 2
From lead: (chemical element).

Noun

 * Russian: интерлиньяж

Anagrams

 * adeling, aligned, dealign, dealing