The word 'frontline' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a line of people, objects, or ideas that is in a position where there is the most direct contact with an opponent, conflict, or problem. For example, "The nurses on the frontline of this pandemic are risking their lives every day."
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An eight-month inquiry by the all party group on mindfulness found frontline public servants could be less likely to fall ill with stress, or quit altogether, if they engage in the increasingly popular meditation practice which involves increasing awareness of the present moment to help control anxiety and depression.
Calculating that two in three of 1.4 million "frontline" care workers in the UK are paid below the living wage, it reckons it would cost a cool £2.3bn a year to bring them all up to that level – not counting £142m needed to end non-compliance with the minimum wage.
We need more emphasis on team and inter-team working and much greater involvement of frontline staff.
In this month's podcast, we'll look at forced labour and the role of international conventions in offering protection; the realities of working on the frontline against slavery; some of the trends in the anti-slavery movement; and the Centre of Social Justice report into the failures of the UK government to address human trafficking.
Greece is on the frontline of the effort to contain and cope with the wave of immigrants crossing the Mediterranean from the Middle East and north Africa.
Ancelotti added weight to his frontline by replacing the midfielder Thiago Motta with Gameiro and the newcomer's tricky dribble caused enough confusion in the Valencia defence to allow Lavezzi to finish.
Dr Barbara Hakin, the national director of commissioning operations for NHS England, said: "The demands on the NHS frontline remain high but we continue to deliver good services in the face of this pressure, admitting or treating and discharging more than nine out of 10 patients within four hours".
Related: Pro-Russian rebels in Donetsk keep on the attack as war of words intensifies "Of course we need training to revitalise the army, to reform and teach so it will be ready for combat," said the commander of a frontline checkpoint near Mariupol who would give only his call sign Cobra.
I do not in any way feel like I am on the frontline of counter-espionage.
A Sunni village near the frontline was deserted, doors and windows smashed and many houses burned, the walls scribbled with pro-army slogans.
