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front-loading

/fruhnt-loh-ding/US // ˈfrʌntˌloʊ dɪŋ //

前置式,前置式装载,前置式的,前置式负载

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : designed to be loaded, supplied, or tended from the front: a front-loading washer; a front-loading VCR.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the practice of expending maximum effort, collecting a fee, interest, or commissions, etc., as early as possible:the front-loading of commissions on insurance premiums.

Examples

  • In front of this strange structure are two blank-faced, well-dressed models showing off the latest in European minimalism.

  • As the protagonist gets herself off in front of her impotent husband, she moans “Oh, Gronky.”

  • Granted, James is in an office in the Pentagon, and not on the front lines.

  • The next phase of the trial consists of vaccinating Ebola workers on the front lines.

  • Hmm, who are these people standing in front of the machines at the gym, neither occupying them nor not occupying them?

  • Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

  • I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.

  • Off went the officers again, some distance to the front, and then back again to their men, and got them on a little further.

  • The doors (Indian bungalows have hardly any windows, each door being half glass) were open front and back.

  • She got up and stood in front of the fire, having her hand on the chimney-piece and looking down at the blaze.