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front line
[ fruhnt lahyn ]
noun
- Military. front ( def 9 ).
- the place where in-person essential work is carried out, especially in jobs that may involve some risk, as in policing, healthcare, emergency services, public transit, grocery, warehouse, and delivery work:
Our bookstore extends a discount to all the teachers, aides, specialists, librarians, and therapists who are on the front line serving our children in schools every day.
- the visible forefront in any action, activity, or field:
TV reporters are constantly involved in the front line of events.
- Football. front four.
- Basketball. front court ( def 2b ).
front line
noun
- military the most advanced military units or elements in a battle
- the most advanced, exposed, or conspicuous element in any activity or situation
- frontline modifier
- of, relating to, or suitable for the front line of a military formation
frontline troops
- of, relating to, or suitable for public service and business employees who are in direct contact with the public
frontline staff
- to the fore; advanced, conspicuous, etc
frontline news
- of or relating to a country bordering on or close to a hostile country or scene of armed conflict
leaders of the frontline states attended the summit
Word History and Origins
Origin of front line1
Example Sentences
When [lawmakers] looked at it holistically, did they want to take away equipment and technology from front-line security?
Saudi Arabia has bought scores of Eurofighter Typhoons from Britain, the front line equipment of many European powers.
As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.
As we get closer to the front line, we saw bombs and artillery shells had flattened apartment buildings and shops.
The plane crashed practically on the front line, you need to understand that.
By the time we had passed along the whole of the French second line and part of their front line trenches, I had had about enough.
On my way back to the beach I saw the Plymouth Battalion as it marched in from the front line.
Just at this moment they are shelling our usual front line billets vigorously.
There was no room for them in the front line trenches and communication trenches to the front had not yet been dug.
The Second and Ninth Corps were in the town, the front line was in the streets and the rear line along the bank of the river.
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