单词 | early adopter |
释义 | > as lemmasearly adopter early adopter n. a person or group that starts using a new product or technology soon after it becomes available, often influencing others to follow suit; spec. (chiefly Marketing) a type of consumer comprising the second of five categories, gauged in terms of their readiness to adopt an innovation (see quot. 1958); also in extended use; cf. late adopter n. at late adj.1 Compounds 4.In early use with of, specifying the product or technology concerned; in later use often used alone as a general term. ΚΠ 1873 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 24 May 3/2 He was an early adopter and promoter of steam cultivation. 1914 Cosmopolitan Nov. 83/1 (advt.) Sears, Roebuck & Co..were among the early adopters of the Automatic-Phone for Inter-Communication. 1949 Rural Sociol. June 150/1 The hypotheses being tested are that the above listed factors differentiating early and late adopters of hybrid seed also discriminate between the accepters and non-accepters of approved hog sanitation practices. 1958 E. M. Rogers in Rural Sociol. 23 345 A method is suggested by which the adopters of agricultural practices may be classified into the five adopter categories of innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. 1994 Science 3 Dec. 15/1 Houghton thinks that the ‘into tech’ group is by far the most important—the kind of people who were first to buy CDs, personal computers, cellular phones and other high-tech innovations, who are in love with technology for its own sake. ‘Your early adopters are your agents of change’, he says. 2001 N.Y. Mag. 16 July 102/1 If you weren't part of the early adopters who saw the Village production of Maya the Bee, then now's your chance. < as lemmas |
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