front-load

• front load, frontload

front-load (third-person singular simple present front-loads, present participle front-loading, simple past and past participle front-loaded)

1. (transitive) To assign to the initial periods; to schedule for as early as possible.

   We front-loaded the fees on the project.

   We front-loaded the project with fees.

   • 2003, William G. Mayer, Andrew E. Busch, The Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations, →ISBN, page 55:

     In a sense, it would be comforting to find that front-loading had developed out of a conscious and deliberate policy, for that would imply that the problem could be readily remedied.

front-load

1. Attributive form of front load.

   This is a front-load fund, with 4.5% coming off the top.

front-load (not comparable)

1. Designed to be loaded from the front.

   A new front-load washing machine uses less water than a top-load.