Usually means: Choose in advance; select beforehand.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. preselect: Merriam-Webster
  2. preselect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preselect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preselect: Wordnik
  5. preselect: Wiktionary
  6. preselect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. preselect: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Preselect, preselect: Dictionary.com
  9. Preselect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. preselect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Preselect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. preselect: FreeDictionary.org
  13. preselect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preselect: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preselect)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To select in advance.

Similar:
prechoose, forechoose, predilect, preelect, prefilter, predesignate, precollect, prelimit, preclassify, prepurchase, more...

Opposite:
postselect, choose after fact, select after fact

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Similar:
prechoose, forechoose, predilect, preelect, prefilter, predesignate, precollect, prelimit, preclassify, prepurchase, more...

Opposite:
postselect, choose after fact, select after fact



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