upfront

Definitions

1. 1

   Honest, frank and straightforward.

2. 2

   Open, admitted, out.

   • Appleby is an upfront homosexual, a devout Roman Catholic and a practitioner of the Black Arts.
3. 3

   In a forward, leading or frontward position.

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   1. 4

      Of money, paid in advance.

   2. 5

      Beforehand.

      • My commissioners pay half of the price upfront and the other half after they receive the finished product.
   3. 6

      As an attacker.

      • He's a poor defender, so we always play him upfront.
   4. 7

      A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start…

      A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season.

      • Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.
   5. 8

      To bring to the fore

      To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration.

      • 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".

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