If something is at the forefront of people's minds or attention, they think about it a lot because it is particularly important to them. The pension issue was not at the forefront of his mind in the spring of 1985
the position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field
If you are at the forefront of a campaign or other activity, you have a leading and influential position in it. They have been at the forefront of the campaign for political change
the part in the front or nearest the viewer; "he was in the forefront"; "he was at the head of the column