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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
forefront
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
▪ Now they came again to the forefront of her mind.
▪ In the 1994 bi-election year, prayer in the schools, so-called family values, and similar issues came to the forefront.
▪ Largely due to Bernard, they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court.
keep
▪ It is a logical ending to a book whose purpose is directly stated and kept consistently in the forefront of the narrative.
▪ It has the effect too of keeping to the forefront the meanings recognized by participants.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Admittedly, few people think of pentecostalism as being in the forefront of feminism.
▪ As always, Rodrigo del Bivar was in the forefront of the action.
▪ It has the effect too of keeping to the forefront the meanings recognized by participants.
▪ You have to be willing to be in the forefront.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Forefront

Forefront \Fore"front`\, n. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
forefront

"front part," late 15c., a Germanic-Latin hybrid, from fore- + front (n.). Originally of buildings, later of battles. The main modern sense ("foremost place in some scene of action") is from the military meaning "front rank of an army" (1510s).

Wiktionary
forefront

n. The leading position or edge.

WordNet
forefront
  1. n. the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column" [syn: head]

  2. the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field [syn: vanguard, cutting edge]

Wikipedia
Forefront

Forefront may refer to:

  • Microsoft Forefront
  • ForeFront Records
  • Forefront.TV
  • Forefront (quartet), 2016 international contest winner
Forefront (quartet)

Forefront is the barbershop quartet that won the International Quartet Championship for 2016 at the Barbershop Harmony Society's annual international convention, in Nashville, Tennessee. The quartet had placed second in the 2014 and 2015 international contests, after competing at the international level annually since 2010. Forefront formed in August 2009.

Usage examples of "forefront".

Belt, and the Algol clan is at the forefront of the Omega Point movement.

As his eyes sought the authors of the frightful sound he saw standing upon the shore, glaring at him with hate-filled eyes, a devil-faced panther surrounded by the hideous apes of Akut, and in the forefront of them a giant black warrior who shook his fist at him, threatening him with terrible death.

The Haredi community is at the forefront of the fight to delegitimize Reform and Conservative Judaism, just because they offer a less stringent interpretation of Torah.

Well, damn Faulconer, who had made Swynyard set Starbuck in the forefront of the hottest battle that he might be smitten and die.

Ranks of heavy horsemen waited at the forefront, bearing lances and swords, their silver armor reflecting sunlight in all directions.

At the forefront of her mind was getting away from this nutcake pronto.

Fabius was sent with two legions to reinforce Rebilus and his two legions among the Pictones and the Andes, two tribes who had not suffered disastrously at Alesia, nor been in the forefront of resistance to Rome.

Gaius Fabius was sent with two legions to reinforce Rebilus and his two legions among the Pictones and the Andes, two tribes who had not suffered disastrously at Alesia, nor been in the forefront of resistance to Rome.

It is not Judah who moves firsthe never moves firstor the Remade with the pipes, nor Thick Shanks nor Shaun but someone quite unknown in the forefront of the tunnel-men.

The royal party consisting of Corrina, Rhian, Kieva and Telyn, the women accompanied by Terra and another maid, set out in the opposite direction riding in a tight group at the forefront of three trundling wains.

Dreibrand Veta was glad to lead the first wave of soldiers across the water even though officers of his rank did not usually put themselves at the forefront of battle.

Sadly for all of us, child abductions have been in the forefront of the national news.

E-publishing is at the forefront of software engineering, e-consumerism, intellectual property technologies, payment systems, conversion applications, the mobile Internet, and, basically, every important trend in network and computing and digital content.

The Cavaliers and Coquettes of Kokotte, always at the forefront, were particularly conspicuous today.

At the forefront of the crowd, clustered about the base of the scaffold, frisked the Cavaliers and Coquettes of Kokotte.