variants
or co-lead
coled or co-led; coleading or co-leading
1
transitive
: to lead (something, such as a group) with one or more other people
They were chosen to co-lead the investigative team.
2
intransitive
: to share a lead with another person in a competition
A former U.S. Amateur champion in Byeong Hun An co-leads at 10 under after a second straight 66.—
Kevin Casey
Kevin Casey
coleader
noun
or co-leader
plural coleaders or co-leaders
… expedition coleader Roy Glaser slid gingerly around a huge block of rock that seemed solidly attached to the wall.
—David Roberts
David Roberts
Examples of colead in a Sentence
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Gasoi, who coleads the DC Coalition for Equitable Outdoor Education, sees schools in the wealthiest parts of her ward with rooftop farms and university-level science facilities.
—Emily Sohn, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2023
Walsh coleads SQuARE with Alice Gorman, an archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia.
—Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
Just ask Cynthia Soledad, who coleads the diversity and inclusion practice at Egon Zehnder.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
Tensions flared in late 2015 when Mr. Meissner proposed coleading a €20 billion loan to Volkswagen AG , which needed cash to help weather its emissions-testing scandal.
—Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
That was the case with Bamako*Chicago Sound System, a group that Ms. Mitchell coleads with the Malian kora player Ballake Sisoko, but that began as her brainchild.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
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Emily Sohn, Outside Online, 14 Mar. 2023
Walsh coleads SQuARE with Alice Gorman, an archaeologist at Flinders University in Australia.
—Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2023
Just ask Cynthia Soledad, who coleads the diversity and inclusion practice at Egon Zehnder.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023
Tensions flared in late 2015 when Mr. Meissner proposed coleading a €20 billion loan to Volkswagen AG , which needed cash to help weather its emissions-testing scandal.
—Liz Hoffman, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2018
That was the case with Bamako*Chicago Sound System, a group that Ms. Mitchell coleads with the Malian kora player Ballake Sisoko, but that began as her brainchild.
—Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
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“Colead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/colead. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.
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