FRONT LINE


Meaning of FRONT LINE in English

ˌfront ˈline BrE AmE noun

1 . [countable usually singular] the place where fighting happens in a war SYN front

in/on the front line

troops who had served in the front line at Magdeburg

three miles behind the front line

2 . in the front line

a) doing something that has not been done before:

in the front line of the fight against cancer

b) likely to be blamed for an organization’s mistakes

—ˈfront-line adjective [only before noun] :

front-line troops

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.