0 speaking or behaving in a way that makes intentions and beliefs clear: --
1 speaking or behaving in a way that makes your intentions and beliefs clear: --
She’s very upfront about her feelings.
3 paid before goods are produced or received or services are performed: --
upfront cost/payment/fee Large upfront costs are incurred to write a complicated piece of software.
4 speaking or behaving in a way which makes intentions and beliefs clear: --
5 in the beginning: --
Laws that are not fully specified upfront, however, impose greater implementation and decision-making costs by judicial and administrative bodies.
With assurance bonds, a polluting firm pays upfront a bond equal to the cost of the worst-case pollution scenario.
Since people discount future values, the prospect of having to pay much later is less of a disincentive to pollute than having to pay upfront.
Gore now recalls that he was always ' upfront ' on the race issue.
To see this more clearly, consider another case of a high upfront benefit.
Large upfront benefits are less likely to be overwhelmed by the roughness of our comparisons, and thus it is compelling to pursue large benefits.
Our upfront efforts to dialogue with the community also provided the community with the chance to communicate to us its fear of being exploited.
Surely at some point the upfront change must be large enough to provide a persuasive reason for or against it.
