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precycling

precycling is the present participle and gerund of precycle.

Meaning of precycle

Verb

precycle (third-person singular simple present precycles, present participle precycling, simple past and past participle precycled)

  1. To avoid the need to recycle, for example by not using prepackaging.
    • Recyling is good, but precycling - cutting out packaging in the first place and buying only what you need - is better.2008 October 30, Tanis Taylor, “Waste Not, Want Not”, in The Guardian

Questions about precycling

What is precycling the present participle and gerund of?
Precycling is the present participle and gerund of precycle.

Words near precycling in the dictionary

  1. precuts
  2. precutting
  3. precycle
  4. precycled
  5. precycles
  6. precycling
  7. precycloplegic
  8. precynical
  9. precyst
  10. precystectomy
  11. precystic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: precycling (page history and authors); precycle (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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