Usually means: Initial rounds in a competition.
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  1. prelims: Merriam-Webster
  2. prelims: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. prelims: Collins English Dictionary
  4. prelims: Vocabulary.com
  5. Prelims, prelims: Wordnik
  6. prelims: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. prelims: Wiktionary
  8. prelims: Dictionary.com
  9. Prelims: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. prelims: Rhymezone
  11. prelims: FreeDictionary.org
  12. prelims: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. prelims: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Prelims: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  The preliminary front matter of a book; all content preceding the main text or work itself.
noun:  (uncountable, collective, Oxford University slang) Preliminary examinations taken as a whole, as sat by an individual or year group.

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