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preauthorization

preauthorization adjective: prior to authorization.

Adjective

preauthorization (not comparable)

  1. Prior to authorization.
    • Coordinate term: postauthorization
    • Preauthorization research, development, nonclinical and clinical investigation describe at the time of approval a “model” of the medicinal product.2016, H. Guenter Hennings, “Postmarketing Evaluation”, in Anthony C. Cartwright, Brian R. Matthews, editors, International Pharmaceutical Product Registration (Drugs and the Pharmaceutical Sciences...

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

Forms of preauthorization

pluralpreauthorizations

Origin of preauthorization

From pre- + authorization.

Questions about preauthorization

What does preauthorization mean?
Preauthorization means prior to authorization.
What part of speech is preauthorization?
Preauthorization can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near preauthorization in the dictionary

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

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