adj
Alternative form of antepost [(gambling) Being a kind of bet, in horse-racing and greyhound racing, placed before the racecourse's betting market has opened, on the expectation that the price of the animal is presently more favourable than it will be when the market opens.]
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to take up or introduce (something) prematurely.
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(transitive) To consider beforehand; think about in advance.
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(transitive) To guard beforehand.
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(transitive, intransitive) To hear beforehand.
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To look beforehand, to preview.
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(transitive) To signify beforehand; predict.
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(transitive, rare) To sentence beforehand or in advance.
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(transitive, dialectal) To ordain; assign; allot in advance.
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(transitive) To teach or instruct beforehand.
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(transitive) To test beforehand or in advance.
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(transitive) To estimate in advance; to count the cost of beforehand.
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(intransitive) To prepare; to make oneself prepared.
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(Australia) To designate in advance the specific purpose of expenditure for government revenues (especially taxes).
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The process of preparing something for use.
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(Internet, slang) Synonym of preempt: to supersede and invalidate a response by posting immediately before it.
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To admit, or allow to enter, in advance.
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To apologize in advance; to make an apology before the fact.
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(obsolete) To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend.
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(transitive) To warn or caution beforehand.
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(transitive, law) To provide precedents for.
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(law, Scotland, transitive) To examine (e.g. witnesses or evidence) beforehand.
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To compensate in advance.
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To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.
n
The act of predesignating.
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(transitive) To determine the future or the fate of something in advance; to preordain.
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(transitive) To doom by previous decree; to foredoom.
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To make someone inclined to something in advance; to influence.
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Preemptive forgiveness; the act of forgiving a person for something they may do in the future.
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(obsolete) To preengage.
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(transitive, intransitive) To form a judgment of (something) in advance.
adj
Preconceived (of an opinion, idea etc.); formed before the event.
v
(transitive) To determine the fate of something in advance.
adj
(followed by the preposition to) Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
n
The act of signifying or showing beforehand.
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The act or process of prevalidating.
v
(rare, dated) Alternative form of preview [To show or watch something, or part of it, before it is complete.]
v
(transitive) To warn beforehand; to forewarn.
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