Usually means: Initially, before final or complete.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word preliminarily:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. preliminarily: Merriam-Webster
  2. preliminarily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preliminarily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. preliminarily: Vocabulary.com
  5. Preliminarily, preliminarily: Wordnik
  6. preliminarily: Wiktionary
  7. Preliminarily, preliminarily: Dictionary.com
  8. Preliminarily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. preliminarily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Preliminarily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. preliminarily: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Preliminarily: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. preliminarily: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. preliminarily: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preliminarily)

▸ adverb:  In a preliminary manner.

Similar:
prelusively, prelusorily, prefatorily, incipiently, predilutionally, preconceptually, primly, inceptively, precortically, prepatently, more...

Opposite:
finally, ultimately, conclusively, definitively

Types:
tentatively, informally, unofficially, provisionally, more...

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Similar:
prelusively, prelusorily, prefatorily, incipiently, predilutionally, preconceptually, primly, inceptively, precortically, prepatently, more...

Opposite:
finally, ultimately, conclusively, definitively

Types:
tentatively, informally, unofficially, provisionally, more...



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