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prebuying

prebuying is the present participle and gerund of prebuy.

Meaning of prebuy

Verb

prebuy (third-person singular simple present prebuys, present participle prebuying, simple past and past participle prebought)

  1. (transitive) To buy in advance.
    • “They are prebuying their retirement homes,” said John Raymond, director of community and economic development for Palm Springs.2007 May 27, Barbara E. Hernandez, “When the Desert Calls”, in New York Times
    Synonyms:
    prepurchase

Questions about prebuying

What is prebuying the present participle and gerund of?
Prebuying is the present participle and gerund of prebuy.

Words near prebuying in the dictionary

  1. prebuttered
  2. prebutting
  3. prebutton
  4. prebuttons
  5. prebuy
  6. prebuying
  7. prebuyout
  8. prebuys
  9. prebypass
  10. prec.
  11. precache

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prebuying (page history and authors); prebuy (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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