Upfront vs Downpayment - What's the difference?
upfront | downpayment |
honest, frank and straightforward
In a forward, leading or frontward position.
(of money) paid in advance
beforehand
(football) As an attacker
(television) A meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=May 17, author=Bill Carter, title=As the Networks Order New Shows, Fox Moves to Consolidate Its Gains, work=New York Times
, passage=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
* {{quote-book, 1997, Christopher Hall et al., Silence: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, chapter=Silent and silenced voices, isbn=3110154595, editor=Adam Jaworski, page=204, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=OM4ueFfoRfcC&pg=PA204
, passage=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".}}
As nouns the difference between upfront and downpayment
is that upfront is (television) a meeting of network executives with the press and major advertisers, signaling the start of advertising sales for a new season while downpayment is .As an adjective upfront
is honest, frank and straightforward.As an adverb upfront
is beforehand.As a verb upfront
is to bring to the fore; to place up front for consideration.upfront
English
Alternative forms
* up-frontAdjective
(en adjective)Adverb
(-)- He's a poor defender, so we always play him upfront .
Noun
(en noun)citation
