The word 'foreword' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when you want to introduce a book or explain its purpose or give an overview of the text. For example: "This book includes a foreword by the author that outlines the main themes of the text."
In a foreword to the report, titled The Third Wave of Globalisation and published by the Institute for Public and Policy Research, Mandelson writes: "People simply do not want to live in a world that puts abstract economic efficiency or "liquidity" in financial markets above their personal sense of economic security for themselves and their families.
In a foreword to the book, Sir Kit McMahon, former deputy governor, says of the Bank in the mid-1970s: "The Bank's organisation was ancient and creaking".
"Africa loses twice as much in illicit financial outflows as it receives in international aid," said Annan, in his foreword to the 120-page report.
In his foreword to the report, Nobel prize-winning economist A. Michael Spence said: "To pursue wellbeing effectively, countries need to achieve economic growth that is both socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable.
In his foreword to the report, Graham said the ICO should be given a "guarantee of independence that comes from a more formal relationship with parliament than is the case at present".
Marked "draft" and with a planned foreword by the home secretary, Theresa May – yet to be written – the strategy proposes banning people from entering the UK if they are seen to have "undermined British values" abroad.
(As Fallows notes in a foreword to the new edition, a great strength of the system is that it doesn't rely on self-help's usual all-or-nothing, "change everything now!" approach; you can just pick what works).
The manual was fully published after the 2010 election with a foreword by Cameron on behalf of the coalition.
When the City of Carlisle opened a new power station in 1927, it even invoked Emile Zola in the foreword to a fancy commemorative brochure: "The time must come when electricity will be for everyone, like the waters of the earth and the winds of heaven.
In his foreword, Maude warns that the party faces "electoral oblivion" unless it continues to modernise.
The foreword to the manifesto as set out to the meeting began with a note from Miliband saying: "We are a great country.
