English-French translations for spearhead

• fer de lance
  En 1848, les politiques ont compris le message de l’époque et ils ont été le fer de lance du changement. In 1848, politicians understood the message of the times and spearheaded the change.
  Monsieur le Commissaire, vous avez expliqué que les régions frontalières étaient le fer de lance du processus d'élargissement de l'UE. Commissioner, you said that the border regions would spearhead the EU enlargement process.
  Nous devrions tous être heureux que l'Union européenne soit le fer de lance de l'action dans ce domaine. We should all be very pleased that we have the European Union to spearhead action in this area.

Definition of spearhead

• The pointed head, or end, of a spear
• One who leads or initiates an activity (such as an attack or a campaign
• A player who initiates attacking moves
• To drive or campaign ardently for, ''as'an effort, project, etc

Examples

• He spearheaded the entire project from day one.

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