Usually means: Pioneer innovative methods or ideas.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. break new ground: Merriam-Webster
  2. break new ground: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. break new ground: Collins English Dictionary
  4. break new ground: Wiktionary
  5. break new ground: Dictionary.com
  6. break new ground: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. break new ground: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. break new ground: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break new ground: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. break new ground: Medical dictionary

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  1. break new ground: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (break new ground)

verb:  (literally) To begin excavating and levelling earth for a new building, or, originally, for cultivation.
verb:  (by extension) To initiate a new venture, especially something never before attempted; to advance or innovate.

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