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Webster 1913 Edition


Forefront

Fore′frontˊ

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Noun.
Foremost part or place.
Set ye Uriah in the
forefront
of the hottest battle.
2 Sam. xi. 15.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, standing in the
forefront
for all time, the masters of those who know.
J. C. Shairp.

Webster 1828 Edition


Forefront

FOREFRONT'

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Noun.
The foremost part. The forefront of the battle, is the part where the contest is most warm, and where a soldier is most exposed. 2Sam. 11:15.

Definition 2024


forefront

forefront

English

Noun

forefront (plural forefronts)

  1. The leading position or edge.
    • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
      It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.
    That laboratory researches topics at the forefront of technology.

Translations

Verb

forefront (third-person singular simple present forefronts, present participle forefronting, simple past and past participle forefronted)

  1. (transitive) To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on.
    • 2015 July 8, Anne Rogers et al., “Meso level influences on long term condition self-management: stakeholder accounts of commonalities and differences across six European countries”, in BMC Public Health, volume 15, DOI:10.1186/s12889-015-1957-1:
      The impact of austerity and economic circumstances were forefronted in the more economically deprived countries of the partner countries (BG, GR) and seen  as producing a fateful impact on access to diet and healthy lifestyle options.