0 the most noticeable or important position:
She was one of the politicians at/in the forefront of the campaign to free the prisoners.
His team is at the forefront of scientific research into vaccines.
2 the most noticeable or important position in a particular market, activity, or group:
at/in the forefront of (doing) sth The company is at the forefront of developing new technology to address CO2 emissions.
come/move to the forefront UK technology companies are only now coming to the forefront.
bring sth/push sth to the forefront Who brought this overbilling to the forefront?
The development of accountants paralleled that of solicitors, though solicitors were usually in the forefront.
Anyone who wants to stay on the forefront of modern approaches to software construction should read this book.
Unlike some other books about biodiversity, it is unlikely that this will become a key text for those at the forefront of conservation action.
Nutrition education, particularly young child nutrition, has been the first large-scale campaign and continues in the forefront of health education activities.
By keeping this politics in the forefront of analysis, we have seen that many established notions about workers' resistance demand qualifications.
Ethnic questions, in particular, remained at the forefront of domestic discontent.
With global research goals pushed to the forefront, an ethnographer asks people to talk about things they probably don't know much about.
And in this scene of ease we see on the forefront of the hearth a creature - four-legged, furbedecked and feline.
