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precredit

precredit adjective: before credit is taken into account.

Adjective

precredit (not comparable)

  1. Before credit is taken into account.
  2. Before the credits (of a television programme, etc.).
    • There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times

Origin of precredit

From pre- + credit.

Questions about precredit

What does precredit mean?
Precredit means before credit is taken into account.
What part of speech is precredit?
Precredit is an adjective.

Words near precredit in the dictionary

  1. precreate
  2. precreated
  3. precreates
  4. precreating
  5. precreative
  6. precredit
  7. precremation
  8. precricoid
  9. precrime
  10. precrimes
  11. precrisis

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