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comparative more upfront, superlative most upfront
Honest, frank and straightforward. examples
open, admitted, out quotations examples
Appleby is an upfront homosexual, a devout Roman Catholic and a practitioner of the Black Arts.
1979 April 14, Mitzel, “A Massachusetts Morality Play”, in Gay Community News, page 8
In a forward, leading or frontward position. examples
(of money) Paid in advance. examples
not comparable
beforehand examples
(soccer) As an attacker. examples
plural upfronts
(television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season quotations examples
Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.
2007 May 17, Bill Carter, “As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains”, in New York Times
third-person singular simple present upfronts, present participle upfronting, simple past and past participle upfronted
To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration quotations examples
What our analysis has, hopefully, upfronted is the importance to resuscitate the suppressed and silenced voices so as to show the powerful mechanisms of institutional "cases".
1997, Christopher Hall et al., “Silent and silenced voices”, in Adam Jaworski, editor, Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, page 204