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front and center

front and center interjection: a command to approach the center of attention of an assemblage, as of military personnel or students.

Interjection

  1. (idiomatic) A command to approach the center of attention of an assemblage, as of military personnel or students.

Adverb

front and center (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) At the center of attention.
    • All these familiar flavors are again front and center in The Pirates! Band Of Misfits, the feature that returns Aardman to theatrical stop-motion after the CGI of Arthur Christmas and Flushed Away.2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club
    • But despite improvements, Mr Baruch says some complaints persist. “Pay to stay [cash to secure shelf space] is front and centre of the complaints we receive — it’s supply chain bullying and anti-competitive. They shouldn’t try to create barriers to business — it’s fundamentally unfair, particularly...2016 August 21, Paul McClean, “Supermarkets and suppliers take stock of relationships”, in Financial Times

front and center meaning in Bengali

front and center in Bengali

মনোযোগের কেন্দ্রবিন্দুতে

Examples of front and center in a sentence

  • Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [title]2020 November 10, Cecilia Kang, David McCabe, Jack Nicas, “Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center”, in The New York...
  • Swift is many things onstage—vulnerable and triumphant, playful and sad—but the intimacy of her songcraft is front and center.2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Dec 2023:

Forms of front and center

alternative formfront-and-center
alternative formfront and centre
alternative formfront-and-centre

Questions about front and center

What does front and center mean?
Front and center means a command to approach the center of attention of an assemblage, as of military personnel or students.
What is front and center in Bengali?
Front and center in Bengali is মনোযোগের কেন্দ্রবিন্দুতে. See Front and center meaning in Bengali.
How do you use front and center in a sentence?
Biden Is Expected to Keep Scrutiny of Tech Front and Center [title]
What part of speech is front and center?
Front and center can be an interjection or an adverb.

Words near front and center in the dictionary

  1. Fronnie
  2. frons
  3. Fronsac
  4. Fronsacs
  5. front
  6. front and center
  7. front and centre
  8. front bench
  9. front bencher
  10. front benchers
  11. front benches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: front and center (page history and authors); front and center (Bengali 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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