"front-foot" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From the phrase on the front foot.",
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        "superlative"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2015, Christopher Johns, Mindful Leadership: A Guide for the Health Care Professions",
          "text": "Front foot thinking is about 'being in place', taking the initiative and being proactive, rather than being caught on the back foot, reactive, defensive and uncertain.",
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        {
          "ref": "2021 May 29, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Chelsea needed to be defensively perfect but this was no smash-and-grab result. It was a front-foot display to take the initiative away from City in the first half.",
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        "On the front foot; Acting so as to take control of a situation."
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1927, Journal of the New England Water Works Association, page 442",
          "text": "There are, of course, excellent examples of extensions to existing systems being carried out on the front-foot assessment plan, but this procedure is distinctly different from the programs herein outlined as applied to newly created systems of large size.",
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        "Based on the width of the front of a property."
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  "word": "front-foot"
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  "etymology_text": "From the phrase on the front foot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more front-foot",
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        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most front-foot",
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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2021 May 29, Phil McNulty, “Manchester City 0-1 Chelsea”, in BBC Sport",
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      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "Based on the width of the front of a property."
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  "word": "front-foot"
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