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predisabled

predisabled adjective: not yet disabled; prior to being disabled.

Adjective

predisabled (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Not yet disabled; prior to being disabled.
    • The State apparatus needs, at its summit as at its base, predisabled people, preexisting amputees, the stillborn, the congenitally infirm, the one-eyed and one-armed. Thus there is a tempting three-part hypothesis: the war machine is […]2004, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, EPZ Thousand Plateaus, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 470
    • Frailty, a characteristic typically ascribed to a subset of older adults, has been described as “a predisabled' state.” […] A key distinction is that it is possible to be frail without specific diagnosed disabilities.2019, James M. Shultz, PhD, MS, Lisa Sullivan, PhD, MA, Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH, Public Health: An Introduction to the Science and Practice of Population Health, Springer Publishing Company, page...

Origin of predisabled

From pre- + disabled.

Questions about predisabled

What does predisabled mean?
Predisabled means not yet disabled; prior to being disabled.
What part of speech is predisabled?
Predisabled is an adjective.

Words near predisabled in the dictionary

  1. prediploma
  2. prediplomatic
  3. predipocyte
  4. predirectional
  5. predisability
  6. predisabled
  7. predisagreement
  8. predisagreements
  9. predisaster
  10. predischarge
  11. predischarged

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