Usually means: To exist before something else.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. preexist: Merriam-Webster
  2. preexist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preexist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preexist: Vocabulary.com
  5. preexist: Wordnik
  6. preexist: Wiktionary
  7. preexist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. preexist (pre-exist): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. preexist: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Preexist, preexist: Dictionary.com
  11. Preexist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. preexist: Rhymezone
  13. Preexist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. preexist: FreeDictionary.org
  15. preexist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. preexist: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preexist: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preexist)

▸ verb:  To exist before something else.

Similar:
pre-exist, preëxist, predate, predecess, forelive, antecede, come before, precede, antedate, prelive, more...

Opposite:
postexist, come into existence, arise, begin, start

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Similar:
pre-exist, preëxist, predate, predecess, forelive, antecede, come before, precede, antedate, prelive, more...

Opposite:
postexist, come into existence, arise, begin, start



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