front burner

1. 1.

   top priority

   “the work was moved to the front burner in order to meet deadlines”

   Antonymsback burner

   Broaderprecedence

Questions about front burner

What does front burner mean?

front burner means "top priority".

What is the opposite of front burner?

The recorded antonyms are back burner.

Is front burner a common word?

front burner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.