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pre-pone

pre-pone is the alternative form of prepone.

Meaning of prepone

Verb (1)

prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)

  1. (India, transitive) To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
    Antonyms:
    postpone

Verb (2)

prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To place or set (something) before.
    • I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall in anye wyſe.1549 September 30 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Crowley, transl., “The .xvi. Psalme”, in The Psalter of Dauid Newely Translated into Englysh Metre in Such Sort that It Maye the More Decently, and wyth...
    Synonyms:
    prefix, prepose

Forms of pre-pone

third-person singular presentpre-pones
present participlepre-poning
past participlepre-poned
pastpre-poned

Questions about pre-pone

What is pre-pone the alternative form of?
Pre-pone is the alternative form of prepone.

Words near pre-pone in the dictionary

  1. pre-planetary
  2. pre-planned
  3. pre-planning
  4. pre-plans
  5. pre-Platonic
  6. pre-pone
  7. pre-poo
  8. pre-portion
  9. pre-portioned
  10. pre-portioning
  11. pre-portions

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