LEADERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does leaders mean? 

• LEADERS (noun)
  The noun LEADERS has 1 sense:

1. the body of people who lead a group

  Familiarity information: LEADERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEADERS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The body of people who lead a group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

leaders; leadership

Context example:

the national leadership adopted his plan

Hypernyms ("leaders" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "leaders"):

Rome (the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church)

high command; supreme headquarters (the highest leaders in an organization (e.g. the commander-in-chief and senior officers of the military))

 Context examples 

The leaders lifted the yelp of the pack and sprang away into the woods.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Cancer Patient Education Network is an NCI-sponsored organization of cancer patient education leaders from NCI-designated comprehensive and clinical centers nationwide.

(Cancer Patient Education Network, NCI Thesaurus)

Very still and silent they stood, leaning upon their bows, while their leaders took counsel together in front of them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"That's agreeable to me," Martin said, after consulting with the leaders of his own gang.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The study said the overwhelming majority of pollution-related deaths come in developing countries where the authors say leaders are more concerned about building their economies and infrastructure than environmental regulations.

(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)

How the Revolution had swept them out of their ships, and the force been left with insubordinate seamen and no competent leaders.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Running at the forefront of the pack was a large grey wolf—one of its several leaders.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The method is this: You take a hundred leaders of each party; you dispose them into couples of such whose heads are nearest of a size; then let two nice operators saw off the occiput of each couple at the same time, in such a manner that the brain may be equally divided.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

His chin was cocked over the coachman's shoulder, so near to me, that his breath quite tickled the back of my head; and as I looked at him, he leered at the leaders with the eye with which he didn't squint, in a very knowing manner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.

(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)