first-place finish

1. 1.

   a finish in first place (as in a race)

   Broaderwin

Questions about first-place finish

What does first-place finish mean?

first-place finish means "a finish in first place (as in a race)".

Is first-place finish a common word?

first-place finish is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.