upfrontとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ʌpˈfɹʌnt/
• 韻: -ʌnt

形容詞

upfront (comparative more upfront, superlative most upfront)

1. Honest, frank and straightforward.
   • 2026 January 29, Angela Haupt, “Can I Ask Someone if They’re on Ozempic?”, in TIME‎, archived from the original on 1 February 2026:

     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 to say that as upfront as possible,” she says.

2. Open, admitted, out.
   • 1979 April 14, Mitzel, “A Massachusetts Morality Play”, in Gay Community News, page 8:

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

3. In a forward, leading or frontward position.
   • 2023 December 27, Mel Holley, “Network News: Regulator to crack down on hidden ticket charges”, in RAIL, number 999, page 6:

     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 action about hidden charges (known as 'drip pricing'), where an initial price is shown but additional elements are revealed later in the sales process, the ORR reviewed the prices of 19 TPRs.

4. (business) Of money, paid in advance.

副詞

upfront (not comparable)

1. Beforehand.

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

2. (soccer) As an attacker.

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

名詞

upfront (plural upfronts)

1. (television, advertising, marketing) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season.
   • 2007 May 17, Bill Carter, “As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains”, in New York Times‎:

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

動詞

upfront (third-person singular simple present upfronts, present participle upfronting, simple past and past participle upfronted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration.
   • 1997, Christopher Hall et al., “Silent and silenced voices”, in Adam Jaworski, editor, Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, →ISBN, page 204:

     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".

Further reading

• upfront on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• front up

形容詞

up front

1. (idiomatic) Open, honest; tending to disclose information; truthful.

   I will be up front with you: what you are asking may be costly and difficult.

   • 2023 December 27, Mel Holley, “Network News: Regulator to crack down on hidden ticket charges”, in RAIL, number 999, page 6:

     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 action about hidden charges (known as 'drip pricing'), where an initial price is shown but additional elements are revealed later in the sales process, the ORR reviewed the prices of 19 TPRs.

副詞

up front

1. (idiomatic) At the beginning; before anything begins.

   If we settle on the terms of the deal up front there will be much less arguing later.

2. At the front.

   If you don't have anything to do up front, help organize the boxes in back.

3. (soccer) In an attacking position.
   • 2010 December 28, Marc Vesty, “Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham”, in BBC‎:

     But, rather than make a change up front, Hughes shuffled his defence for this match, replacing Carlos Salcido with Baird, in a move which few would have predicted would prove decisive.

アナグラム

• front up