"forefounder" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018 January 31, Prime Editor, “The World of Bitcoin: The Believer, The Power Holder, and The “Jihad” — Jihan Wu”, in Medium",
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          "text": "Societal metabolism, therefore, is a representation of the economic process through biophysical transformations associated with the production and consumption of goods and services - a process that was first described by its forefounder, the economist Nicholas Georgesu-Roegen in his book The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in 1971.",
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        "A founder; one who founds or establishes something."
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        "(rare) A founder; one who founds or establishes something."
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