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predeparture

predeparture adjective: occurring before or in preparation for one's departure.

Adjective

predeparture (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before or in preparation for one's departure.
    • The Philippines requires each outbound migrant to attend a predeparture seminar.2007 November 22, Jason Deparle, “Western Union Empire Moves Migrant Cash Home”, in New York Times

Noun

predeparture (plural predepartures)

  1. (rare) The time or preparations leading up to one's departure.
    • Once conditioned, the odor can be used during graduated departures and predepartures as an OSS.2013, Steven R. Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training
    • […] the inherent difficulties of migratory processes, including traumatizing predepartures and journeys, the challenges of transculturation and family reorganization, and the coming to terms with new living conditions […]2022, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Health and Health Care Inequities, Infectious Diseases and Social Factors, page 93

Forms of predeparture

pluralpredepartures

Origin of predeparture

From pre- + departure.

Questions about predeparture

What does predeparture mean?
Predeparture means occurring before or in preparation for one's departure.
What part of speech is predeparture?
Predeparture can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near predeparture in the dictionary

  1. predentate
  2. predentin
  3. predentine
  4. predentistry
  5. predepartmental
  6. predeparture
  7. predepartures
  8. predepleted
  9. predeploy
  10. predeployed
  11. predeploying

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