Usually means: Period before trial; legal preparations.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretrial: Merriam-Webster
  2. pretrial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pretrial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pretrial: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pretrial, pretrial: Wordnik
  6. pretrial: Wiktionary
  7. pretrial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. pretrial: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. pretrial: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. pretrial: Dictionary.com
  11. pretrial: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. pretrial: Rhymezone
  13. pretrial: FreeDictionary.org
  14. pretrial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. pretrial: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pretrial: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  Pertaining to a preliminary trial.
▸ adjective:  Before a trial.
▸ noun:  (law) A preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial.

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preceding, pretrial conference, pre-trial, prelim, postpreliminary, preliminary, preliminatory, prelusive, preallable, presuit, more...

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pretrial conference, pretrial discovery, pretrial order, more...

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preceding, pretrial conference, pre-trial, prelim, postpreliminary, preliminary, preliminatory, prelusive, preallable, presuit, more...

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pretrial conference, pretrial discovery, pretrial order, more...

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