upfront

Honest, frank and straightforward.

• She’s found that people typically start the conversation like this: “Wow, you look great! I didn’t even recognize you.” “When that happens, I usually come back with, ‘Yeah, I've been taking a GLP-1, and it's going so well. I love it.’ I try

Open, admitted, out.

• Appleby is an upfront homosexual, a devout Roman Catholic and a practitioner of the Black Arts.

In a forward, leading or frontward position.

• Warning online ticket retailers to be "up front" about fees, the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) has written to seven of the 19 third-party ticket retailers (TPRs) which did not include their fees in the upfront price. Threatening to take act

Of money, paid in advance.

Beforehand.not-comparable

• My commissioners pay half of the price upfront and the other half after they receive the finished product.

As an attacker.not-comparable

• He's a poor defender, so we always play him upfront.

A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season.

• Virginia Heffernan, Times TV critic, reports from this week's TV upfronts, where the networks debut their new schedules.

To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration.intransitivetransitive

• What our analysis has, hopefully, upfronted is the importance to resuscitate the suppressed and silenced voices so as to show the powerful mechanisms of institutional "cases".