0 a person, organization, etc. that starts new fashions, especially in clothes:
1 a person, organization, etc. that starts to do something that others then copy:
This is the flagship product of a company that is increasingly a trendsetter in wireless networking.
It has, by the way, already been hailed on other continents as an important trendsetter.
Obviously, as it is a trendsetter for the world, we can expect problems, because we are on the cutting edge.
It is therefore refreshing if a government has the nerve to be a trendsetter and stick its neck out.
Female trendsetters must step forward and show what can be done.
In fact the auction debate is connected with this very issue, because auctions would introduce that element that would encourage and reward the trendsetters.
It was an early and most definitive masala film, and a trend-setter for multi-star films.
It also features local trendsetters as guest columnists.
This makes him something of a trend-setter among his peers.