forerunner
B2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind, indicating what is to follow.
The pilot project was a forerunner of the enterprise-wide automation program that followed a year later.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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