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名詞

game changer (plural game changers)

1. A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
2. (literally or figuratively) An innovative idea, product, event or procedure which changes the rules of a process viewed as a game.

   Improved drug testing has been a game changer for many sports.

   • 2024 November 17, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 Republic of Ireland”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Kane’s magnificent pass from deep to Bellingham that led to the penalty was the game changer, resulting in a penalty which the captain scored, the Republic also being reduced to 10 men with Scales’ red card.

関連する語

• game-changing
• change the game

参考

Further reading

• “game changer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.