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precampaign

precampaign adjective: before a campaign.

Adjective

precampaign (not comparable)

  1. Before a campaign.
    • Reruns revive the old Fred Thompson in all his precampaign savvy.2008 February 24, Eleanor Randolph, “It’s Law & Order”, in New York Times

Noun

precampaign (plural precampaigns)

  1. A campaign that takes place in advance of the main campaign.
    • For example, current election laws remain silent about so-called precampaigns: the campaign activities that prospective candidates carry out ahead of the official campaign period […]2005, Russell Crandall, Guadalupe Paz, Riordan Roett, Mexico's Democracy at Work: Political and Economic Dynamics

Forms of precampaign

Adjective
alternative formpre-campaign
Noun
pluralprecampaigns

Origin of precampaign

From pre- + campaign.

Questions about precampaign

What does precampaign mean?
Precampaign means before a campaign.
What part of speech is precampaign?
Precampaign can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near precampaign in the dictionary

  1. precalibration
  2. precalibrations
  3. precambered
  4. Precambrian
  5. precame
  6. precampaign
  7. precampaigns
  8. precancel
  9. precancelation
  10. precancelations
  11. precanceled

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