Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
record-holder
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
world
▪ Dolan is the world record-holder in the 400.
▪ In track, only world record-holder Wang Junxia has had staying power since smashing world records in 1993. 16.
▪ Tom Jager, the world record-holder, swam in Lane 8.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dolan is the world record-holder in the 400.
▪ In track, only world record-holder Wang Junxia has had staying power since smashing world records in 1993. 16.
▪ Rumours that the previous record-holder, Geoffrey Boycott, had his back to the play at the key moment remain unverified.
▪ Tom Jager, the world record-holder, swam in Lane 8.
WordNet
record-holder
n. someone who breaks a record [syn: record-breaker]
Usage examples of "record-holder".
The Citadel Cadets had picnics on the beach a couple of weekends a year at which it was an unofficial tradition to bring a couple of thick steel sheets and a few sledgehammers and have impromptu contests to see which company's champion could pulverize the most shells (Golf Company being the current record-holder at twenty-three buckets), after which the cadets carefully filled in any significant cracks or potholes with the makeshift paving material.