lead
/lid/ n [U] (BE FIRST)Definition
› She took the lead (= went in front) with ten meters to go in the race. › A lead is also the amount or distance by which someone is in front: After five games, she was still ahead by a point in the chess tournament, but her lead was shrinking.
(Definition of lead n (BE FIRST) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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