📚 Upfront, adverb. 🔉 /ʌpˈfrʌnt/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (usually up front • informal): (of a payment) in advance. ❗️ Examples: 1. The salesmen are paid commission up front. 2. Payment is up front and there is a choice between a damage waiver or a security deposit. 3. He'd waited five years on the list, and he'd needed to pay up front a year in advance. 4. She had been paid up front, and she had carried out the task for which she had been paid. 5. The budget is paid in a lump sum up front, so the practice knows where its money is coming from. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic