first mover

短语

先动者；先驱者；倡议人；发起人

词形变化

first movers 复数 first movers

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover.

    哲学
  2. 2.

    An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology.

    商务

词源

The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).

来源：wiktionary