to announce plans or ideas officially so that people can discuss them
to change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier
She left a message with her father's secretary on the off chance that he could bring forward his flight home and come along, too.
The match has been brought forward to 1.00 pm.
The various departments have not yet brought forward their spending plans.
They brought the date of the wedding forward so her cousins could attend.
brings forward
bringing forward
brought forward
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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