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pre-crime

pre-crime is the alternative form of precrime.

Meaning of precrime

Adjective

precrime (not comparable)

  1. Before a crime.
    • The precrime actions of the murderers in the days and hours before they killed provide clues to their mental states at the time of the murders.1995, Robert K. Ressler, Ann Wolbert Burgess, John E. Douglas, Sexual homicide: patterns and motives, page 65

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Forms of pre-crime

pluralpre-crimes

Questions about pre-crime

What is pre-crime the alternative form of?
Pre-crime is the alternative form of precrime.

Words near pre-crime in the dictionary

  1. pre-coolers
  2. pre-covid
  3. pre-crastination
  4. pre-crastinations
  5. pre-creative
  6. pre-crime
  7. pre-crimes
  8. pre-cruise
  9. pre-cum
  10. pre-date
  11. pre-dated

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-crime (page history and authors); precrime (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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