frontline
or front-line
located or designed to be used at a military front line: a frontline ambulance helicopter.
of, relating to, or involving the forefront in any action, activity, or field: a frontline TV reporter.
highly experienced or proficient in the performance of one's duties.
of or relating to essential work that depends on in-person interactions and may involve some risk, especially policing, healthcare, emergency services, public transit, grocery, warehouse, and delivery work: Congress is taking up a bill that would guarantee sick leave and hazard pay to frontline workers.
Origin of frontline
1Other definitions for front line (2 of 2)
Military. front (def. 9).
the place where in-person essential work is carried out, especially in jobs that may involve some risk, as in policing, healthcare, emergency services, public transit, grocery, warehouse, and delivery work: Our bookstore extends a discount to all the teachers, aides, specialists, librarians, and therapists who are on the front line serving our children in schools every day.
the visible forefront in any action, activity, or field: TV reporters are constantly involved in the front line of events.
Football. front four.
Basketball. front court (def. 2b).
Origin of front line
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How to use frontline in a sentence
When [lawmakers] looked at it holistically, did they want to take away equipment and technology from front-line security?
SWAT Lobby Shoots to Kill Police Reform After Ferguson | Tim Mak | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSaudi Arabia has bought scores of Eurofighter Typhoons from Britain, the front line equipment of many European powers.
As I reach the berm of sand, tile and stucco that marked a kind of front line, bodies are being piled on carts in the street.
As we get closer to the front line, we saw bombs and artillery shells had flattened apartment buildings and shops.
Fleeing Israeli Troops, Gaza Muslims Find Refuge in a Christian Church | Jesse Rosenfeld | July 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe plane crashed practically on the front line, you need to understand that.
By the time we had passed along the whole of the French second line and part of their front line trenches, I had had about enough.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonOn my way back to the beach I saw the Plymouth Battalion as it marched in from the front line.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonJust at this moment they are shelling our usual front line billets vigorously.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieThere was no room for them in the front line trenches and communication trenches to the front had not yet been dug.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 | Ian HamiltonThe Second and Ninth Corps were in the town, the front line was in the streets and the rear line along the bank of the river.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.
British Dictionary definitions for front line
military the most advanced military units or elements in a battle
the most advanced, exposed, or conspicuous element in any activity or situation
frontline (modifier)
of, relating to, or suitable for the front line of a military formation: frontline troops
British of, relating to, or suitable for public service and business employees who are in direct contact with the public: frontline staff
to the fore; advanced, conspicuous, etc: frontline news
of or relating to a country bordering on or close to a hostile country or scene of armed conflict: leaders of the frontline states attended the summit
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