LEADING INDICATOR as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • one of 11 indicators for different sections of the economy
   • used by the Department of Commerce to predict economic trends in the near future
   Hypernyms(s) leading indicator is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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