Meaning

1 senses

  1. To establish beforehand.

    Having preestablished that the murder weapon did not belong to the hotel, the detective widened her field of enquiry.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The board aims to preestablish rules to which all future employees of the company will be held.

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Origin

From pre- + establish.

From pre- + establish.

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Forms

preestablishes, preestablishing, preestablished, preestablished
Base formpreestablish · to preestablish
3rd person singularpreestablishes
Present participlepreestablishing
Past simplepreestablished
Past participlepreestablished

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypreestablish
he, she, itpreestablishes

Past simpleLesson

all personspreestablished

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave preestablished
he, she, ithas preestablished

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill preestablish

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
preeminentC2preemptivepreenpreexistprefab
preestablish — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto