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1 definition found From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: foreground vt. [Unix; common] To bring a task to the top of one's stack for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks. ?If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document.? Technically, on a timesharing system, a task executing in foreground is one able to accept input from and return output to the user; oppose {background }. Nowadays this term is primarily associated with Unix, but it appears first to have been used in this sense on OS/360. Normally, there is only one foreground task per terminal (or terminal window); having multiple processes simultaneously reading the keyboard is a good way to lose.