up front

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up front

adjective

idiomatic Open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful. I will be up front with you: what you are asking may be costly and difficult.

adverb

idiomatic At the beginning; before anything begins. If we settle on the terms of the deal up front there will be much less arguing later.
At the front. If you don't have anything to do up front, help organize the boxes in back.
In attacking positions. 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.

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adj open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful

Русский	откры́тый otkrýtyj, че́стный čéstnyj

adv at the beginning; before anything begins

Deutsch	zu Anfang, anfangs, zuerst
Русский	зара́нее zaráneje, предвари́тельно predvarítelʹno, ава́нсом avánsom

adv at the front

Deutsch	vorne, im Vordergrund, vorn
Русский	впереди́ vperedí

adv in an attacking position

Français	en pointe

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@misc{up_front_2026,
  title = {up front},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/up%20front},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}