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foregrounder

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English

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Etymology

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From foreground +‎ -er.

Noun

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foregrounder (plural foregrounders)

  1. One who brings something to the foreground.
    • 1975, Arthur Cantrill, Corinne Cantrill, Cantrill's Filmnotes, numbers 21-32, page 64:
      He got involved with J. P. Morgan and Teddy Roosevelt who were both foregrounders of the liberal conservation policies in America at that time, and the Indian was seen as a salvageable conservation project within that context []