(n.) A play among boys, in which one stoops down and another leaps over him by placing his hands on the shoulders of the former.
Example Sentences:
(1) Aims include overtaking Tesco to become the market leader in general merchandise and leapfrogging Sainsbury's to become No 2 in food.
(2) Reaping the benefits of a successful speech to Iowa conservatives the preceding weekend, Walker leapfrogged more established candidates and secured 15% of the vote – up from 4% in October.
(3) In a sense, what the BBC is now trying to do is to leapfrog from its "multichannel" phase into the on-demand future.
(4) Their season was discussed in the past tense, as though it had ended with the week 16 loss to Carolina that allowed the Panthers to leapfrog them into first place in the NFC South.
(5) Leapfrogging the rest of the field through technological means, however, is harder than in certain other sports.
(6) Where the inferior view shows a "tent tip" skyline, lateral crus advancement is required and can be achieved in asynchronous repairs by Pigott alar leapfrog at primary repair or by Potter V-Y advancement at the time of forked flap columella lengthening.
(7) Yes, Bryant's return should help the Lakers remain competitive for the next two-plus seasons, but it's hard to see them coming out of a crowded Western Conference where they would have to leapfrog the Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets and even, it seems now, the Portland Trail Blazers.
(8) Following his victory, Murray leapfrogged double Olympic gold medallist Mo Farah in the betting for the most competitive BBC Sports Personality Award of all time, though he remains behind another who bucked history this summer – Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins.
(9) Its technology would let any handset maker leapfrog the opposition, which will be interesting to Apple and Microsoft, the owner of Nokia, which both need to catch up on rivals in this field.
(10) A resurgent Rupert Murdoch , after two years of decline in the MediaGuardian 100, bounced back to fourth position ‑ leapfrogging his son James ‑ on the back of his decision to put up paywalls around the online content of the Times and Sunday Times.
(11) This review chronicles the leapfrogging of medical and surgical creativity and contributions to saving lives and making those lives healthy through informed care for people with congenital heart disease.
(12) In 2007 he leapfrogged Li Keqiang – until then seen as likely to succeed Hu, but seen perhaps as too much Hu's protege – as the consensus candidate in a system built on collective decision-making.
(13) It also leapfrogged Germany in the number of people with more than $50m, with 400 more than 2014 and a total of 5,400.
(14) It took second place in the women's weekly market, as classified by ABC, and top place among the celebrity titles, leapfrogging sister title OK!, which was 15.7% up year on year but 1.9% down on the previous six months to 588,546.
(15) Scotland has now been leapfrogged by Latvia and Lithuania whose Ministers sit at the top table and make their farmers a priority.
(16) In six years, Santander has become one of the biggest banks on the British high street, leapfrogging HSBC after today's deal.
(17) Now the MP for South Northamptonshire, who entered parliament in 2010, has leapfrogged Michael Gove to become second favourite with the bookmakers to be the next Conservative leader and prime minister.
(18) A deal would also help WPP leapfrog its rival Omnicom into first place among advertising behemoths, a ranking it has taken twice previously: in the 1990s - when the company's overstretched position also put it on the brink of collapse - and earlier this decade.
(19) Global Radio's Capital, which had leapfrogged Heart into the runner-up spot last time round, slipped 6.9% on the previous quarter to post a reach - listeners tuning in for more than five minutes a week – of 1.81 million , according to official Rajar listening figures published today.
(20) It is almost unheard of for a finance director to leapfrog the role of chief executive and be installed as chairman.
Overtake
Definition:
(v. t.) To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
(v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the second fate that is overtaking the government's higher education reforms.
(2) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(3) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
(4) Aims include overtaking Tesco to become the market leader in general merchandise and leapfrogging Sainsbury's to become No 2 in food.
(5) On the positive side, it will very soon overtake Les Miserables (£40.8m) to become the second-biggest 2013 release, behind only Despicable Me 2 (£47.4m).
(6) Desmond has some way to go if Channel 5 is to overtake Channel 4 as the fourth most popular TV channel in the UK.
(7) Until the first exit polls came in on the evening of Sunday 26 June, the sorpasso (overtaking) was taken for granted.
(8) Marketing experts estimated that the campaign cost about £7,500, and succeeded in boosted Cameron’s “likes” by 47,000 to 127,000, overtaking Nick Clegg’s 80,000 in the process.
(9) The overtaking of the role as a widow is much dependent of capacities which are learned in an earlier life span.
(10) THe German striker still needs one more goal to overtake Ronaldo and become the all-time highest World Cup scorer with 16 goals.
(11) It thought it could overtake the socialists as the leading force on the left and, so, either lead the government or lead the opposition.
(12) Batman v Superman this week became the highest-grossing superhero film of 2016 so far, overtaking Deadpool, and is the second highest-grossing movie overall behind Zootopia (Zootropolis in the UK).
(13) However Moyles, who had been hoping to overtake the Radio 2 breakfast in the Rajar figures following Wogan's handover to Evans, instead saw the gap between the two shows' audiences increase.
(14) The outlook predicted coal’s ongoing decline would see gas overtake it as the world’s second largest source of energy by 2035, with fracking for US shale driving much of the gas growth.
(15) Even in the multimillion pound industry that is the Premier League these days, fate can still overtake all the best-laid preparations.
(16) China is poised to overtake India to become the world's biggest market for gold this year thanks to soaring investment purchases of bullion and steadily rising jewellery sales, according to the World Gold Council's annual report.
(17) Market share at Sainsbury's, the UK's third biggest food retailer, remained flat following months of growth that had pushed it close to overtaking its rival Asda .
(18) RBC and Capgemini analysts said the Asia-Pacific region would almost certainly overtake north America this year.
(19) This was the first year that men aged 45 to 59 showed the highest suicide rate, 25.1 per 100,000, overtaking those aged 30 to 44, who had previously recorded the highest rate from 1995 to 2012.
(20) Rees, who was promoted to editorial director at the publishers NatMag-Rodale in April , has overseen a recession-bucking 15-month run of year-on-year sales increases to see his title overtake FHM as the biggest-selling men's magazine in the first half of this year.