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in advance

in advance prepositional phrase: beforehand.

Prepositional phrase

  1. Beforehand.
    • The money was paid in advance.
    • To make matters worse, you did not publish the news note until 5 days before the conference — even though we had submitted it enough in advance to have been included in the previous weeks' paper.!1979 December 22, Gia Berkman, “Some Friction”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 4
    Synonyms:
    ahead of time

in advance meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Bengali and Malayalam

in advance in Tamil

உயர்த்து, முன்னதாக, முன்பாகவே முன்வருதல் தொடர்

in advance in Marathi

in advance, early
आधी ādhī

in advance in Bengali

in advance
অগ্রে ogre

in advance in Malayalam

before, beforehand, ahead of time
മുൻകൂർ, മുൻകൂറായി, മുൻകൂട്ടി, മുങ്കൂട്ടി, ആദ്യം, മുമ്പെ
More languagesFewer languages
in advance in Assamese
আগতীয়াকৈ agotiakoi, সোনকালে xünkale

Synonyms of in advance

Words formed from in advance

Questions about in advance

What does in advance mean?
In advance means beforehand.
What is in advance in Tamil?
In advance in Tamil is உயர்த்து, முன்னதாக, முன்பாகவே முன்வருதல் தொடர். See In advance meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is in advance?
In advance is a prepositional phrase.

Words near in advance in the dictionary

  1. in accordance with
  2. in action
  3. in actuality
  4. in addition
  5. in addition to
  6. in advance
  7. in advance of
  8. in aggregate
  9. in agreement
  10. in aid of
  11. in all

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Adapted from Wiktionary: in advance (page history and authors); in advance (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); आधी (Marathi) (page history and authors); অগ্রে (Bengali) (page history and authors); in advance (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); আগতীয়াকৈ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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