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foregrounder

foregrounder noun: one who brings something to the foreground.

Noun

foregrounder (plural foregrounders)

  1. One who brings something to the foreground.
    • He got involved with J. P. Morgan and Teddy Roosevelt who were both foregrounders of the liberal conservation policies in America at that time, and the Indian was seen as a salvageable conservation project within that context […]1975, Arthur Cantrill, Corinne Cantrill, Cantrill's Filmnotes, numbers 21-32, page 64

Forms of foregrounder

pluralforegrounders

Origin of foregrounder

From foreground + -er.

Questions about foregrounder

What does foregrounder mean?
Foregrounder means one who brings something to the foreground.
What part of speech is foregrounder?
Foregrounder is a noun.
What is the plural of foregrounder?
The plural of foregrounder is foregrounders.

Words near foregrounder in the dictionary

  1. foregrip
  2. foregrips
  3. foreground
  4. foregroundable
  5. foregrounded
  6. foregrounder
  7. foregrounders
  8. foregrounding
  9. foregrounds
  10. foregroup
  11. foregroups

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