0 a person or organization that is the first to do new or different things and so provides an example for others to follow:
pacesetter in sth
California has long been the pacesetter in regulating car emissions.
We were the pacesetters, and the whole country knows it.
I want the more forward-looking authorities in each area to be the pacesetters.
They said that it would be a pacesetter in innovation.
They are the pacesetters of today and the major employers of tomorrow.
It is a real pacesetter for economic renewal, and has the potential to be a powerful force for employment.
As the pacesetters, it is the public service broadcasters who set a tone for broadcasting.
In vasectomized men, the pacesetter potentials on the testicular side exhibit an irregular rhythm.
The silent often additionally indicates that the vowel before is a long vowel, as in "rice", "mace", and "pacesetter".
