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forward-lookingˈforward-ˌlooking adjective - Assistance with childcare costs is offered by some forward-looking companies.
- We like to think we're a forward-looking company that isn't afraid to use new ideas.
- We need more forward-looking political thinking.
- And his interest in the sport is intensely forward-looking.
- As I said, we're an old established company, but we're forward-looking and vigorous.
- In response to the difficult situation schools find themselves in, a critical and forward-looking approach to curriculum renewal was developed.
- Rather, you will create a strong, forward-looking tone that is realistic and convincing.
- The appeal to the past was thus developed into a forward-looking philosophy of history.
- The liberal-historical approach by contrast is more forward-looking in character.
- Unfortunately, even the most forward-looking women assume a linear progression toward equality.
- We have to ask by what means this free and forward-looking imagination can be cultivated at school.
modern ideas/ways of thinking► modern having new ideas or attitudes, rather than traditional or old-fashioned ones: · They're a very modern couple -- he stays at home with the kids and she goes out to work.· The school is very modern in its approach to sex education. ► progressive using new methods to educate or bring up children, deal with social problems etc, especially when these methods are less strict than traditional ones: · She went to a progressive private school where the pupils could choose which lessons to attend.· the government's progressive policies for dealing with inner city problems ► forward-looking willing to use new and recently developed methods and ideas: · We like to think we're a forward-looking company that isn't afraid to use new ideas.· We need more forward-looking political thinking. ► go-ahead British always keen to use modern ideas and methods because you want to be successful: · Fortuna is a young, go-ahead computer company based in Düsseldorf. ► move/change with the times to change your way of living or working so that you are using modern ideas, methods etc, even though you may not want to: · I'm not keen on having a mobile phone, but I suppose we must all move with the times.· This is a town that has changed with the times and now provides every vacation facility you could wish for. planning for and thinking about the future in a positive way, especially by being willing to use modern methods or ideas → backward-looking: a forward-looking Russian statesman |