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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
June 19, 2007

Pioneer

pioneer (verb) - to be one of the first people developing a new business, technology, or location

a pioneer (noun) - someone who pioneers some new area


Example sentences:

* He moved to Beijing eight years ago to pioneer new businesses for the South Korean company he worked for.

* Because of its pioneering eco-friendliness, the company is considered a model project by the Department of Export Promotion.

* The pioneer low-cost domestic airline has been granted a license to operate internationally.

* She founded the department store chain that helped pioneer American retailing.

* He does not claim to be a pioneer since there were many in this business before him.

* High-tech pioneer William Hewlett founded Hewlett-Packard, one of the first successful Silicon Valley companies.

* The young doctor was an herbal medicine pioneer, founding his own line of herbal medicines.

* The hospital pioneered the use of the new technology.

* The method they pioneered remains fundamental to all cancer treatment nowadays.

* Leland Stanford was one of America's railway pioneers.

* The eagle in the company's emblem is a symbol of the company's pioneering spirit.

* The school won awards for its pioneering work with the community.

* He was an early pioneer in the new medium of video.

* The first telephone was created through the pioneering experiments of Graham Alexander Bell.

* Aviation pioneer Howard Hughes founded one of the first commercial airlines.

* The founders of this organisation were true pioneers.

* Hackers were the first computer pioneers, they say.

* She loved dolphins so much that he did pioneering research on their intelligence (to win her love).

* The government has just introduced a pioneering programme named the Home Instruction Programme.

* Their pioneering efforts won them public attention and praise.

* Indian companies are pioneering innovative new sources of clean energy.


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