Upfront vs Prior - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between upfront and prior

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 prior is prior (high-ranking member of a monastery).

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-front

Adjective

(en adjective)

honest, frank and straightforward

In a forward, leading or frontward position.

(of money) paid in advance

Adverb

(-)

beforehand

(football) As an attacker

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

Noun

(en noun)

(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 citation

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

Verb

(en verb)

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".}}

prior

English

Adjective

(-)

Of that which comes before, in advance.

I had no prior knowledge you were coming.

former, previous

His prior residence was smaller than his current one.

Usage notes

The etymological antonym is (m) (from Latin) (compare (m)/(m) for “first/last”). This is now no longer used, however, and there is no corresponding antonym. Typically either (m) or (m) are used, but these form different pairs – (m)/(m) and (m)/(m) – and are more formal than prior . When an opposing pair is needed, these can be used, or other pairs such as (m)/(m) or (m)/(m).

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* prior to

Adverb

(en adverb)

(colloquial) Previously.

The doctor had known three months prior .

Noun

(wikipedia prior) (en noun)

A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.

* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 53:

‘And a little later we get the routine report on his prints from Washington, and he's got a prior back in Indiana, attempted hold-up six years ago.’

(statistics) In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution.