vanguard

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van·guard /ˈvænɡɑːd $ -ɡɑːrd/ noun

1 in/at the vanguard (of something) ADVANCEDin the most advanced position of development 在(某事物的)前沿

The shop has always been in the vanguard of London fashion trends.

那家商店一直走在伦敦时尚潮流的最前沿。

Examples from the Corpus

in/at the vanguard (of something)• Kerry was on his older bike, riding between Ronny Taskin and Alistair in the vanguard of a flock of other boys.• For it is the non-elite institutions that are in the vanguard of recruiting non-standard students.• California leads the nation in shifting to managed care, with San Diego County in the vanguard.• Poland put itself at the vanguard of Eastern Europe's democratic revolution.• These preferences, of course, placed the Wiener Werkstatte squarely in the vanguard of Modernism.• The crowd began to advance upon the threesome, and Omally was in the vanguard.• The prototype was in the vanguard of technical development.• They were in the vanguard of the religious revolutionaries.

2. the vanguard PMthe leading position at the front of an army or group of ships moving into battle, or the soldiers who are in this position 〔军队或舰队的〕前卫，前锋

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vanguard• Those individuals will form the critically important vanguard of a new workforce.• What it would put a stop to is the reactionary policy of subordinating the revolutionary vanguard to the national bourgeoisie.• The party was portrayed as the vanguard of the proletariat.• The prototype was in the vanguard of technical development.• Tom wanted to mold the Parish-to-Parish Committee into the vanguard of a movement.• Slinger has been part of the vanguard transforming hip-hop with ideas taken from a wide variety of sources, including straight experimentalism.• That the vanguard was so severely curtailed reveals the extent of the Soviet Union's conservatism, conformism and inferiority complex.

From Longman Business Dictionary

vanguardvan·guard /ˈvængɑːd-gɑːrd/ noun

be in/at the vanguard (of something) to be the most advanced or developed business, person etc in a particular area of work

The prototype was in the vanguard of technical development.

Origin vanguard

(1400-1500) Old French avangarde, from avant-garde; → AVANT-GARDE

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