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pre-engage

pre-engage is the alternative form of preengage.

Meaning of preengage

Verb

preengage (third-person singular simple present preengages, present participle preengaging, simple past and past participle preengaged)

  1. (transitive) To engage previously.
    • A deed of gift is when I do freely befow ſomewhat upon another without preengaging so to do1676, Abraham Clifford, Methodus Evangelica

Forms of pre-engage

third-person singular presentpre-engages
present participlepre-engaging
past participlepre-engaged
pastpre-engaged

Questions about pre-engage

What is pre-engage the alternative form of?
Pre-engage is the alternative form of preengage.

Words near pre-engage in the dictionary

  1. pre-emptional
  2. pre-emptions
  3. pre-emptive
  4. pre-emptively
  5. pre-empts
  6. pre-engage
  7. pre-epidemic
  8. pre-episode
  9. pre-establish
  10. pre-established
  11. pre-established harmony

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