frontline
Americanadjective
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located or designed to be used at a military front line.
a frontline ambulance helicopter.
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of, relating to, or involving the forefront in any action, activity, or field.
a frontline TV reporter.
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highly experienced or proficient in the performance of one's duties.
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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.
Etymology
Origin of frontline
First recorded in 1910–15; front (in the military sense) + line 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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In the recently opened factory near Munich, the venture between Quantum Systems, a German drone maker, and Frontline Robotics, a Ukrainian military technology company, is the first Build With Ukraine project to go into production.
A small support workshop that Quantum established in Ukraine has since grown into a full production facility with 450 employees—and led the German company to invest last year in Frontline Robotics, a startup established in 2023 by four Kyiv-area engineers.
Mykyta Rozhkov, a director at Frontline Robotics and the top Ukrainian executive at the joint venture with Quantum, recalled how his company’s production facility was targeted by a salvo of 14 Russian Shahed drones.
Conroy also spent seven years with the Royal Artillery as a soldier before becoming a professional photographer and was a trustee of the Frontline Club for media professionals, diplomats and aid workers.
From BBC
Repeatedly arrested under the shah for his anti-imperial activism, Khamenei shortly after the Islamic revolution became Friday prayer leader of Tehran and also served on the frontline during the Iran-Iraq war.
From Barron's
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