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front-loading

front-loading is the present participle and gerund of front-load.

Meaning of front-load

Verb

front-load (third-person singular simple present front-loads, present participle front-loading, simple past and past participle front-loaded)

  1. (transitive) To assign to the initial periods; to schedule for as early as possible.
    • We front-loaded the fees on the project.

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Adjective

front-loading (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of front-load (“designed to be loaded from the front”).
    Synonyms:
    front-load

Synonyms of front-loading

Questions about front-loading

What does front-loading mean?
Front-loading means synonym of front-load (“designed to be loaded from the front”).
What is front-loading the present participle and gerund of?
Front-loading is the present participle and gerund of front-load.
What part of speech is front-loading?
Front-loading is an adjective.

Words near front-loading in the dictionary

  1. front-foot
  2. front-footed
  3. front-line
  4. front-load
  5. front-loaded
  6. front-loading
  7. front-loads
  8. front-matter
  9. front-of-house
  10. front-of-house curtain
  11. front-of-house curtains

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Adapted from Wiktionary: front-loading (page history and authors); front-load (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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