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preadmission

preadmission adjective: before admission (to a hospital, university, etc.).

Adjective

preadmission (not comparable)

  1. Before admission (to a hospital, university, etc.).
    • In September, the Board of Regents said that commercial schools could no longer use the preadmission test that Interboro was using to determine whether students without high school diplomas had the ability to benefit from higher education, and thus be eligible for financial aid.2007 December 18, “Troubled Manhattan Commercial College to Close”, in New York Times

Noun

preadmission (uncountable)

  1. A preadmission process; a process that precedes admission.
    1. (broadly, health care) A preliminary process that precedes hospital admission for some interventional or surgical procedures.
  2. Admission, as of steam, to an engine cylinder before the backstroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.

preadmission meaning in Tamil

preadmission in Tamil

முன்னொப்புகை

Origin of preadmission

From pre- + admission.

Questions about preadmission

What does preadmission mean?
Preadmission means before admission (to a hospital, university, etc.).
What is preadmission in Tamil?
Preadmission in Tamil is முன்னொப்புகை. See Preadmission meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is preadmission?
Preadmission can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near preadmission in the dictionary

  1. preadjustments
  2. preadjusts
  3. preadjuvant
  4. preadministration
  5. preadministrations
  6. preadmission
  7. preadmissions
  8. preadmit
  9. preadmits
  10. preadmittance
  11. preadmitted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preadmission (page history and authors); preadmission (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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