forefrontとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɔːfɹʌnt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈfɔɹfɹʌnt/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA: /ˈfoːfɹɐnt/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈfo(ː)ɹfɹʌnt/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA: /ˈfoəfɹʌnt/
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)fɹʌnt

名詞

forefront (plural forefronts)

1. The leading position or edge.

   That laboratory researches topics at the forefront of technology.

   • 2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times‎:

     Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own right, but back in the early 1970s, it was at the forefront of consumer technology.

   • 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:

     It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is a tax system that is pivotal in creating the increasing inequality that marks most advanced countries today – with America standing out in the forefront and the UK not far behind.

   • 2023 August 9, “Network News: Network Rail under fire for spending thousands of pounds on flights”, in RAIL, number 989, page 15:

     He said that with the world facing a climate crisis, "it is up to those at the forefront of our industry - like Network Rail - to lead by example".

動詞

forefront (third-person singular simple present forefronts, present participle forefronting, simple past and past participle forefronted)

1. (transitive) To bring to the forefront; to emphasize, or focus on.
   • 2015 July 8, Anne Rogers et al., “Meso level influences on long term condition self-management: stakeholder accounts of commonalities and differences across six European countries”, in BMC Public Health‎, volume 15, →DOI:

     The impact of austerity and economic circumstances were forefronted in the more economically deprived countries of the partner countries (BG, GR) and seen as producing a fateful impact on access to diet and healthy lifestyle options.