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Meaning pre meaning
What does pre mean?
Definitions in simple English
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Synonyms pre synonyms
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Topics pre topics
What do people use pre to talk about?
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What words indicate that something happens before a particular event?
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What words refer to preventing someone from doing something.
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What words indicate that something is certain to happen and nothing can be done to stop it?
Examples pre examples
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Simple sentences
The problem with many things is the pre-conceived ideas we have about them!
Pre-cooked food manufacturers give the consumer the impression that they themselves prepare the food.
Government troops launched a pre-emptive attack on the insurgents, after receiving intelligence reports that they were planning an assault.
The Prime Minister said that he didn't want to pre-empt the findings of the inquiry by making any policy changes before its recommendations were handed down.
The government was criticised for not taking pre-emptive action to avoid the catastrophic consequences for customers following the collapse of the National Bank.
Printing more money is a short-term measure used by some countries to pre-empt inflation, but, in the long term, it makes the situation worse.
A day is split into the morning, pre-noon, noon, afternoon, evening and night.
Tom pre-heated the teapot.
The pre-Islamic Arabs were nomads.
What's your pre-tax income?
Movie subtitles
It's a pre-parade campaign debrief.
It's pre-war.
Fine, old, pre-war stock, I imagine.
We'll need a pre-dated transfer of ownership. -You want it immediately?
You know, pre-war army.
I object to this pre-peroration. on the grounds that it is prejudicial to the defendant!
Our love is pre-ordained.
To determine the tactical approach, I'll get the pre-strike photos.
Is there any pre-war record?
Then this has all been pre-arranged.
Pre-arranged?
Maxim's, Moulin Rouge, Pre Catalan.
The Pre Catalan is closed.
I better warn you, it will probably be pre-1941.
You see, I make a clean-cut pre-marriage settlement.
Pre-marriage settlement.
Either the gun was handmade, or it was a pre-ballistics antique.
We'll dress up and go to the Pre Catalan in the Bois.
No need of pre-shave lotion.
During the pre-oedipal phase, only the mother should nourish her child. - I've already told you.
Circumstances pre-empted me.
AS A SURGICAL PRE-FRONTAL LOBOTOMY.
I'll bet you a red herring against a case of pre-war Scotch it was some man that got you pushed in here.
No, pre-Columbian art.
What's this pre-Columbian art?
Play the pre-battle!
I was investigating the early pre-Islamic cultures.
Mother wouldn't let us lose any of our pre-war atmosphere!
It's pre-Christian, of course, but it doesn't seem to be truly African.
Are you pre-empting criticism?
Once again the main jetty at Orly, in the middle of this warm pre-war Sunday afternoon where he could not stay, he though in a confused way that the child he had been was due to be there too, watching the planes.
Let's say your arrival was pre-announced.
News and current affairs
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
It had an antecedent, that is, a lack of pre-emptive resistance at home and abroad to the threat that built up in Nazi Germany during the 1930's.
Of course, non-state actors are harder to deter, so improved defenses such as pre-emption and human intelligence become important in such cases.
Although the Baltic republics merely reestablished their pre-WWII independence, and Yugoslavia's breakup was a bloody affair like so many other wars of independence, there is something tantalizing new in all this as well.
Look at America in 1787: creation of the federal government swept away the balkanized system of pre-revolutionary colonies, ushering in an era of entrepreneurial expansion across the entire American Continent.
Talk is growing of a change in US defense doctrine to allow for pre-emptive strikes on states that harbor weapons of mass destruction.
Across virtually all the major indicators - including equity and housing price runs-ups, trade balance deficits, surges in government and household indebtedness, and pre-crisis growth trajectories - red lights are blinking for the US.
Without compensatory measures - including pre-school education, ideally beginning at a very young age - unequal opportunities translate into unequal lifelong outcomes by the time children reach the age of five.
The proper economic policy was to teach people to venerate the throne (so that they would respect property), the paternal hearth (so that they would not marry imprudently young), and the religious altar (so that they would fear pre-marital sex).
That position lasted until 1970, when the US share of global GDP fell to its pre-war level of one-quarter.
Demanding a full-fledged democratic transition as a pre-condition for normalizing US-Cuban relations is both unrealistic and unpalatable to Latin America.
First, their commitment to oppose America does not include a pre-emptive sacrificing of essential oil sales that keep their run-down economies churning.
For them, Israel's pre-1967 borders, the entire city of Jerusalem, and the West Bank of the Jordan River is land given to the Jewish people by God.
Large majorities on both sides--perhaps two-thirds or even three-fourths of each population--would accept a return by Israel to something like its pre-1967 borders in exchange for real peace.
If the slowdown in advanced countries persists, pre-crisis growth levels will not be achievable in the developing world either, owing to insufficient demand to absorb the implied increase in output.
The hope was that policy settings soon would return to pre-crisis norms.
Will the financial sector return to pre-crisis growth rates when the economic situation has been fully stabilized?
If employment began rising at this rate in 2010, it would take until 2015 before it reached its pre-recession level.
But with time, technological gains will spread to other countries and peoples, diminishing America's relative pre-eminence.
There is no way to know whether the rate of growth of multifactor productivity will remain at its current level or will revert to the pre-2000 pace.
At the same time, while consumer confidence is on the mend, it remains well below pre-crisis readings.
But they want to follow up their tactical victory - which postpones the restoration of pre-Bush tax rates for a couple of years - with a longer-term victory next spring.
And, sadly, things have become worse in the past 30 years, as Afghanistan's particular brand of Islam, combined with its legacy of dire poverty and war, compounds an already misogynist pre-Islamic tradition.
The emerging stew of Weltpolitik thickened even more with Israel's pre-emptive move in international waters to stop a flotilla supposedly bringing relief aid to blockaded Gaza.
Nevertheless, by the 1970's the pre-Thatcher political economy was in crisis.
Some are convinced that a nuclear Iran is the worst of all possible scenarios, worse even than the fall-out from a pre-emptive strike.