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leapfrog Definition

leap·frog (lēpfrôg′)

noun

a game in which each player in turn jumps, with legs spread wide, over the bent back of each of the other players

intransitive verb -·frogged′, -·frog′·ging

  1. to jump in or as if in leapfrog; skip (over)
  2. to move or progress in jumps or stages

transitive verb

to jump or skip over, as in leapfrog

leapfrog Usage Examples

Followed by a transitive particle

  • over: These interventions have further inflated market prices, assisting some key workers to leapfrog over others.

Object

  • technology: Leapfrog technology has already proven its worth and is hugely popular in the US, now being used in tens of thousands of classrooms.
  • verizon: Gift from the these cases and leapfrog r verizon the future and.
  • stage: We would therefore have expected there to be some substantive reasons for the proposal that certain employment disputes should leapfrog the conciliation stage.
  • scheme: Careful choice for the discretisation yields a fully explicit leapfrog integration scheme.
  • competition: A feeling of hope and excitement is pervading the affected departments as they realize that this is a real chance to leapfrog the competition.
  • rival: Independence came a long way second to leapfrogging bigger rivals to become part of the world's biggest real estate services group.

Preposition: with

  • unicorn: A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

Preposition: into

  • century: The 16th February sees Horsham Museum use 550 year old technology to leapfrog into the 21st century.

Modifying Another Word

  • ahead: But it was not quite enough for Alonso to leapfrog ahead.
  • also: ITV News is now self-confident, innovative, bold, and it has also leapfrogged both the BBC and Sky in its production values.
  • much: That said, for all the undoubted benefits of mobile phones, there are limits to how much leapfrogging even they make possible.