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preauthorisation

preauthorisation is the alternative form of preauthorization.

Meaning of preauthorization

Noun

preauthorization (countable and uncountable, plural preauthorizations)

  1. Authorization given in advance.
    • “Every time a patient calls me telling me a prescription can’t be filled, or I have to call insurance for preauthorization, that’s my time or my staff’s time, and that’s money and time diverted to taking care of other people,” he said.2019 April 5, Britta Lokting, “Can Technology Stop the Duane Reade-ization of New York?”, in The New York Times

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Forms of preauthorisation

pluralpreauthorisations

Origin of preauthorisation

From pre- + authorisation.

Questions about preauthorisation

What is preauthorisation the alternative form of?
Preauthorisation is the alternative form of preauthorization.

Words near preauthorisation in the dictionary

  1. preauditory
  2. preaudits
  3. preaugmentation
  4. preauricular
  5. preauricularly
  6. preauthorisation
  7. preauthorisations
  8. preauthorization
  9. preauthorizations
  10. preauthorize
  11. preauthorized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preauthorisation (page history and authors); preauthorization (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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