0 a place where opposing armies face each other in war and where fighting happens:
2 the place or the area of activity where important, interesting, or difficult things are happening:
3 the part of a business that deals directly with customers and the public, or that makes a product:
Since state agencies cease standing on the 'front-line' as service suppliers, they are shielded from consumers' critiques and demands.
Munitions factories, field hospitals, and military laboratories suited their ' temperament ' better than the front-line.
The fourth element was a survey of the opinions of senior managers and front-line practitioners in the study authorities about impediments to care-home diversions.
The first stage adopted a senior management perspective and the second a front-line perspective.
Responsibility for rationing decisions was shared by different professionals: national and local politicians, civil servants, social services officials and front-line practitioners.
They were too astute to accept the rigid discipline and punishing conditions of life as front-line troops.
It is therefore timely that a new book on the subject should be published in a series designed to report on front-line molecular biological research.
Overall, the decision-making process of front-line assessors was largely resource-led rather than needs-led.
