up front
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.25 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
At the front.
Example Sentences
- "I will be up front with you: what you are asking may be costly and difficult."
- "Warning online ticket retailers to be "up front" about fees, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has written to seven of the 19 third-party ticket retailers (TPRs) which did not include their fees in the upfront price. Threatening to take action about hidden charges (known as 'drip pricing'), where an initial price is shown but additional elements are revealed later in the sales process, the ORR reviewed the prices of 19 TPRs."
- "If we settle on the terms of the deal up front there will be much less arguing later."
- "If you don't have anything to do up front, help organize the boxes in back."
- "But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive."
- "TIn front of a record women's rugby crowd of 81,885, the Red Roses, who had lost the previous two finals to New Zealand, laid that ghost to rest with an assured display built on their power up front and ferocious defence."