"first mover" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "87 13",
          "word": "first-mover disadvantage"
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              17,
              29
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          "ref": "c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene ii:",
          "text": "The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare,\nEnchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps,\nWill ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen,\nThen ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.",
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      "glosses": [
        "The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover."
      ],
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        "(philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover."
      ],
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        "philosophy",
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      ],
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        "An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology."
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          "commercialize",
          "commercialize"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(business) An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "business"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "first mover"
}

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  "etymology_text": "The business sense bears connotations of the earliest moves in a game such as chess or checkers (for example, a gambit).",
  "forms": [
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          "text": "The chiefeſt God firſt moouer of that Spheare,\nEnchac’d with thouſands euer ſhining lamps,\nWill ſooner burne the glorious frame of Heauen,\nThen ſhould it ſo conſpire my ouerthrow.",
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        "The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover."
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        "(philosophy) The initial agent that is the cause of all things; the prime mover."
      ],
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        "philosophy",
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      ]
    },
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      ],
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        "An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology."
      ],
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        "(business) An early player in a market, such as the first company to commercialize a newly developed technology."
      ],
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