Usually means: In advance, before the event.
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  1. aforehand: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. aforehand: Collins English Dictionary
  3. aforehand: Wordnik
  4. aforehand: Wiktionary
  5. aforehand: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. Aforehand, aforehand: Dictionary.com
  7. Aforehand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. aforehand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Aforehand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. aforehand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. AFOREHAND: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  12. aforehand: Free Dictionary
  13. Aforehand: Dictionary/thesaurus
  14. aforehand: Merriam-Webster.com

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  1. aforehand: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (aforehand)

▸ adverb:  (archaic or dialect) Beforehand; in advance; in anticipation.
▸ adjective:  Beforehand in condition; forehanded.

Similar:
aforehan', forehandedly, ahead, toforehand, before, afore, previously, prehand, before-hand, anticipately, more...

Opposite:
afterward, subsequently, later, following

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Similar:
aforehan', forehandedly, ahead, toforehand, before, afore, previously, prehand, before-hand, anticipately, more...

Opposite:
afterward, subsequently, later, following



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