The difference between Pioneer and Push the envelope
When used as verbs, pioneer means to go before and prepare or open a way for, whereas push the envelope means to go beyond established limits.
Pioneer is also noun with the meaning: one who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
check bellow for the other definitions of Pioneer and Push the envelope
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Pioneer as a noun:
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
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Pioneer as a noun:
A person or other entity who is first or among the earliest in any field of inquiry, enterprise, or progress.
Examples:
"Some people will consider their national heroes to be pioneers of civilization."
"Certain politicians can be considered as pioneers of reform."
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Pioneer as a noun (obsolete, military):
A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, and make bridges, as an army advances; a sapper.
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Pioneer as a noun:
A member of any of several European organizations advocating abstinence from alcohol.
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Pioneer as a noun (Communism):
A child of 10–16 years in the former Soviet Union, in the second of the three stages in becoming a member of the Communist Party.
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Pioneer as a verb:
To go before and prepare or open a way for; to act as pioneer.
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Push the envelope as a verb (intransitive, idiomatic):
To go beyond established limits; to pioneer.
Examples:
"They pushed the envelope on pricing derivatives."