forefront
UK/ˈfɔːfɹʌnt/
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British/ˈfoːfɹʌnt/
forefront noun: the leading position or edge.
Noun
forefront (plural forefronts)
- The leading position or edge.
- That laboratory researches topics at the forefront of technology.
- Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own right, but back in the early 1970s, it was at the forefront of consumer technology.2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times
Verb
forefront (third-person singular simple present forefronts, present participle forefronting, simple past and past participle forefronted)
- To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on.
- 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.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...
forefront meaning in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Arabic
forefront in Tamil
- முன்னிடத்தில் இரு, முன்னணியில், முன்புறம்
forefront in Malayalam
- മുൻപുറം, മുൻഭാഗം, മുൻനിര, മുന്നണി
forefront in Kannada
- ಮುಂಚೂಣಿ, ಮುಂಭಾಗ
forefront in Arabic
- forefront
- طَلِيعَة ṭalīʕa
Examples of forefront in a sentence
- 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.2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- He said that with the world facing a climate crisis, "it is up to those at the forefront of our industry - like Network Rail - to lead by example".2023 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:
Forms of forefront
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | forefronts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | forefronts |
| present participle | forefronting |
| past participle | forefronted |
| past | forefronted |
Origin of forefront
From Middle English forefrount, forfrount, forefronte, equivalent to fore- + front.
Words that rhyme with forefront
Questions about forefront
- What does forefront mean?
- Forefront means the leading position or edge.
- What is forefront in Tamil?
- Forefront in Tamil is முன்னிடத்தில் இரு, முன்னணியில், முன்புறம். See Forefront meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use forefront in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is forefront?
- Forefront can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce forefront?
- Forefront is pronounced /ˈfɔːfɹʌnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of forefront?
- The plural of forefront is forefronts.
Words near forefront in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: forefront (page history and authors); forefront (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forefront (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forefront (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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