Led

Word LED
Character 3
Hyphenation led
Pronunciations /ˈlɛd/

Definitions and meanings of "Led"

What do we mean by led?

Under leading or control: as, a led captain, friend, horse (see phrases below): specifically applied to a landed possession not occupied by the owner or by the person who rents it, or a district ruled over by deputy: as, a led farm, etc.

Preterit and past participle of lead. noun

An obsolete form of lead. noun

Of lead. imperative, past participle

An obsequious follower or attendant. imperative, past participle

A sumpter horse, or a spare horse, that is led along. imperative, past participle

Simple past tense and past participle of lead. verb

Diode such that light emitted at a p-n junction is proportional to the bias current; color depends on the material used noun

(heading) To guide or conduct.

To guide or conduct, as by accompanying, going before, showing, influencing, directing with authority, etc.; to have precedence or preeminence; to be first or chief; — used in most of the senses of the transitive verb.

(heading) To begin, to be ahead.

To draw or direct by influence, whether good or bad; to prevail on; to induce; to entice; to allure

To tend or reach in a certain direction, or to a certain place.

To produce (with to).

(transitive) To live or experience (a particular way of life).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Led

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The word "led" in example sentences

MEXICO CITY -- As drug violence spirals out of control in Mexico, a commission led by three former Latin American heads of state blasted the U. S.-led drug war as a failure that is pushing Latin American societies to the breaking point. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Reporters Alistari MacDonald and John McKinnion note that attempts to stop Iran's plans to enrich uranium, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons, have so far led to three sanctions resolutions in the U.ited Nations, but they have been relatively limited in scope and many European countries have until now resisted U. S.-led attempts to toughen the measures. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is an Iraqi homegrown Sunni extremist group led by foreigners that came about after the U. S.-led invasion in 2003. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And he also has been an outspoken critic of the U.S. war led -- the U. S.-led war in Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Now that Providence had seen fit to cast him ashore, if he was to be permitted to continue his flight alone, he would go straight for his goal, the Swiss border, and not be led astray (that is what he called it, _led astray_) by any other enterprise. ❋ Percy Keese Fitzhugh (1913)

Ghamsharik also led a group of Afghan militias during the 2001 U. S.-led campaign against the Taliban, including at Tora Bora, a complex of caves near Nangahar's border with Pakistan, from where al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden escaped. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the last three years, under U.S. tutelage, the Sunnis were persuaded, largely through large amounts of money and promises of immunity from prosecution, to abandon the insurgency they had led since the U. S.-led invasion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Philippine Senate inquiry and task force in 2000 led to no action, and a lawsuit designed to force a U. S.-led environmental assessment survey, filed in the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Taliban is led by Sunni Muslim clerics who imposed harsh Islamic law on Afghanistan until their ouster by a U. S.-led invasion in 2001. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Hezb-i-Islami (HIA) party led by a former premier Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, which runs a separate insurgency force from the Taliban against the government and NATO and U. S.-led forces, said the offer was "completely unacceptable and out of question". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Work and investment opportunities have led many foreigners to flock to Iraq's Kurdish oil-rich north, a region where the thriving economy contrasts sharply with other parts of a country ravaged by sectarian violence unleashed by the 2003 U. S.-led invasion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun from the south, the country's most violent region, has led Afghanistan since U. S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, first as head of an interim administration and then after winning elections in 2004. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In order to maintain stability through the post-conflict period, Liberia's security sector reform efforts have led to the disarmament of more than 100,000 ex-combatants, the wholesale U. S.-led reconstruction of the Armed Forces of Liberia, and a UN-led effort to overhaul the Liberian National Police.

Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, led international opposition to the U. S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An insurgency led by al Qaeda and other militants has proven stubborn in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, even as the violence set off by the U. S.-led invasion of 2003 has waned elsewhere in Iraq. ❋ Unknown (2009)

President Hamid Karzai has led Afghanistan since U. S.-led and Afghan forces toppled the Taliban after the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001, but he has fallen out of favour with his Western backers due to his failure to rein in corruption and govern effectively outside Kabul. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Concretely, the article says, this has led to French support for a tough line against Iranian nuclear development and pledges of support behind U. S.-led military efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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