colead

English

Etymology

co- +‎ lead

Noun

colead (plural coleads)

1. A joint lead; one of a group of actors who jointly take lead roles.
   • 2006, James Robert Parish, Fiasco: A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops, page 23:

     Meanwhile, Wanger's wish list for the film's coleads included Sir Laurence Olivier as Julius Caesar and Richard Burton as Mark Antony. (The studio preferred Cary Grant and Burt Lancaster in these roles, respectively.)

Verb

colead (third-person singular simple present coleads, present participle coleading, simple past and past participle coled)

1. To lead jointly.
   • 1982 August 14, Aryeh Engel, Aliza Maggad, “Differences Into Unity”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 7:

     A workshop dealing with "Our Place in Judaism" was co-led by gay male and straight female rabbis.

   • 2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 109:

     Last year, in April 1993, I co-led a party of birdwatchers to the island[.]

Anagrams

• coaled

Spanish

Verb

colead

1. second-person plural imperative of colear