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Definitions for Upfront

[1] invested or paid in advance or as beginning capital: an up-front fee of five percent and an additional five percent when the job is done.
[2] honest; candid; straightforward: He's very up-front about discussing his past.
[3] conspicuous or prominent: The company has an up-front position in its industry.
[4] located in the front or forward section: to request up-front seats on a plane.
[5] as an initial investment, beginning capital, or an advance payment: They'll need a half-million dollars up-front before opening the business.
[6] before other payments, deductions, or returning a profit: Estimated operating expenses will be deducted up-front.
[7] the foremost part or surface of anything.
[8] the part or side of anything that faces forward: the front of a jacket.
[9] the part or side of anything, as a building, that seems to look out or to be directed forward: He sat in the front of the restaurant.
[10] any side or face, as of a building.
[11] a façade, considered with respect to its architectural treatment or material: a cast-iron front.
[12] a property line along a street or the like: a fifty-foot front.
[13] a place or position directly before anything: We decided to plant trees in the front.
[14] a position of leadership in a particular endeavor or field: She rose to the front of her profession.
[15] Military . the foremost line or part of an army. a line of battle. the place where combat operations are carried on.
[16] an area of activity, conflict, or competition: news from the business front.
[17] land facing a road, river, etc.
[18] British . a promenade along a seashore.
[19] Informal . a distinguished person listed as an official of an organization, for the sake of prestige, and who is usually inactive.
[20] a person or thing that serves as a cover or disguise for some other activity, especially one of a secret, disreputable, or illegal nature; a blind: The store was a front for foreign agents.
[21] outward impression of rank, position, or wealth.
[22] bearing or demeanor in confronting anything: a calm front.
[23] haughtiness; self-importance: That clerk has the most outrageous front.
[24] the forehead, or the entire face: the statue's gracefully chiseled front.
[25] a coalition or movement to achieve a particular end, usually political: the people's front.
[26] something attached or worn at the breast, as a shirt front or a dickey: to spill gravy down one's front.
[27] Meteorology . an interface or zone of transition between two dissimilar air masses.
[28] Theater . the auditorium. the business offices of a theater. the front of the stage; downstage.
[29] of or relating to the front.
[30] situated in or at the front: front seats.
[31] Phonetics . (of a speech sound) articulated with the tongue blade relatively far forward in the mouth, as the sounds of lay.
[32] to have the front toward; face: Our house fronts the lake.
[33] to meet face to face; confront.
[34] to face in opposition, hostility, or defiance.
[35] to furnish or supply a front to: to front a building with sandstone.
[36] to serve as a front to: A long, sloping lawn fronted their house.
[37] Informal . to provide an introduction to; introduce: a recorded message that is fronted with a singing commercial.
[38] to lead (a jazz or dance band).
[39] Phonetics . to articulate (a speech sound) at a position farther front in the mouth.
[40] Linguistics . to move (a constituent) to the beginning of a clause or sentence.
[41] to have or turn the front in some specified direction: Our house fronts on the lake.
[42] to serve as a cover or disguise for another activity, especially something of a disreputable or illegal nature: The shop fronts for a narcotics ring.
[43] (used to call or command someone to come, look, etc., to the front, as in an order to troops on parade or in calling a hotel bellboy to the front desk): Front and center, on the double!
[44] informal open, frank, honest
[45] (of money) paid out at the beginning of a business arrangement
[46] that part or side that is forward, prominent, or most often seen or used
[47] a position or place directly before or ahead a fountain stood at the front of the building
[48] the beginning, opening, or first part the front of the book
[49] the position of leadership; forefront; vanguard in the front of scientific knowledge
[50] land bordering a lake, street, etc
[51] land along a seashore or large lake, esp a promenade
[52] military the total area in which opposing armies face each other the lateral space in which a military unit or formation is operating to advance on a broad front the direction in which troops are facing when in a formed line
[53] meteorol the dividing line or plane between two air masses or water masses of different origins and having different characteristics See also warm front, cold front
[54] outward aspect or bearing, as when dealing with a situation a bold front
[55] assurance, overconfidence, or effrontery
[56] informal a business or other activity serving as a respectable cover for another, usually criminal, organization
[57] mainly US a nominal leader of an organization, etc, who lacks real power or authority; figurehead
[58] informal outward appearance of rank or wealth
[59] a particular field of activity involving some kind of struggle on the wages front
[60] a group of people with a common goal a national liberation front
[61] a false shirt front; a dicky
[62] archaic the forehead or the face
[63] of, at, or in the front a front seat
[64] phonetics of, relating to, or denoting a vowel articulated with the blade of the tongue brought forward and raised towards the hard palate, as for the sound of ee in English see or a in English hat
[65] on the front foot at an advantage, outclassing and outmanoeuvring one's opponents
[66] (when intr, foll by on or onto ) to be opposite (to); face (onto) this house fronts the river
[67] (tr) to be a front of or for
[68] (tr) informal to appear as a presenter in (a television show)
[69] (tr) to be the lead singer or player in (a band)
[70] (tr) to confront, esp in hostility or opposition
[71] (tr) to supply a front for
[72] (intr often foll by up ) Australian and NZ informal to appear (at) to front up at the police station

Words related to Upfront

up-frontreal, simple, genuine, easy, instinctive, fair, impartial, sincere, free, transparent, candid, receptive, heartfelt, outspoken, trustworthy, earnest, serious, forthright, true, virtuous

Words nearby Upfront

up-frontup-and-over, up-and-under, up-bow, up-close, up-do, up-front, up-helly-aa, up-itself, up-market, up-or-out, up-phase

Origin of Upfront

front1250–1300; Middle English frount, front < Anglo-French, Old French < Latin front- (stem of frōns ) forehead, brow, front

Other words from Upfront

un·front·ed , adjective

Word origin for Upfront

frontC13 (in the sense: forehead, face): from Latin frōns forehead, foremost part

Synonyms for Upfront

easy, genuine, instinctive, real, simple, frank, innocent, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, artless, being oneself, candid, childlike, credulous, direct, folksy, forthright, homey, ignorant, impulsive, inartificial, ingenuous, laid-back, naive, simplehearted, sincere, spontaneous, straightforward, trusting, unassumed, uncontrived, undesigning, unembarrassed, unfeigned, unforced, unlabored, unpolished, unpretentious, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, unworldly, up-front