lead off
— phrasal verb with lead uk/liːd/us/liːd/verb led, led uk/led/us
to begin to speak, usually as the first person to speak:
I want to lead off by thanking everyone for coming.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- wade in
- weave
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