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precontacting

precontacting is the present participle and gerund of precontact.

Meaning of precontact

Verb

precontact (third-person singular simple present precontacts, present participle precontacting, simple past and past participle precontacted)

  1. To contact somebody in advance.
    • Reviewing 12 studies of precontacting or advance notice to respondents, Linsky (1975) concluded that all precontacts by letter, postcard, telephone, or earlier personal contact increased response rates, with the telephone precontact being the most effective.2015, H. J. Hsia, Mass Communications Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Approach, page 169

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Questions about precontacting

What is precontacting the present participle and gerund of?
Precontacting is the present participle and gerund of precontact.

Words near precontacting in the dictionary

  1. preconsumerist
  2. preconsumes
  3. preconsuming
  4. precontact
  5. precontacted
  6. precontacting
  7. precontacts
  8. precontemplation
  9. precontemplative
  10. precontemplator
  11. precontemplators

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precontacting (page history and authors); precontact (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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