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pre-cancel

pre-cancel is the alternative form of precancel.

Meaning of precancel

Verb

precancel (third-person singular simple present precancels, present participle (US) precanceling or (UK) precancelling, simple past and past participle (US) precanceled or (UK) precancelled)

  1. (transitive) To cancel or frank (a postage stamp) prior to posting it.

See all 2 meanings of precancel

Forms of pre-cancel

Verb
third-person singular presentpre-cancels
present participle USpre-canceling
present participle UKpre-cancelling
past participle USpre-canceled
past USpre-canceled
past participle UKpre-cancelled
past UKpre-cancelled
Noun
pluralpre-cancels

Questions about pre-cancel

What is pre-cancel the alternative form of?
Pre-cancel is the alternative form of precancel.

Words near pre-cancel in the dictionary

  1. pre-build
  2. Pre-Cambrian
  3. pre-campaign
  4. Pre-Cana
  5. Pre-Canas
  6. pre-cancel
  7. pre-cancerous
  8. Pre-Cenozoic
  9. pre-charge
  10. pre-charged
  11. pre-charges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-cancel (page history and authors); precancel (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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