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pre-trial

pre-trial is the alternative form of pretrial.

Meaning of pretrial

Adjective

pretrial (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to a preliminary trial.
  2. Before a trial.
    • “A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz. Charges under the Uniform Code of Military Justice are pending,” NCIS told CNN in a statement Thursday.2025 June 13, Rosa Flores, “Missing Navy sailor found dead in Virginia, another sailor in custody”, in CNN

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Forms of pre-trial

pluralpre-trials

Questions about pre-trial

What is pre-trial the alternative form of?
Pre-trial is the alternative form of pretrial.

Words near pre-trial in the dictionary

  1. pre-transmission
  2. pre-treat
  3. pre-treated
  4. pre-treating
  5. pre-treats
  6. pre-trial
  7. pre-trials
  8. pre-twist
  9. pre-twisted
  10. pre-twisting
  11. pre-twists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-trial (page history and authors); pretrial (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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