preexchanges

Noun

preexchange (plural preexchanges)

1. An exchange that takes place beforehand.
   • The solicitor acting for the vendor in one of these cases had cause to telephone the writer this afternoon to request an early date for exchange of contracts, and, upon being advised of the horror with which the writer had viewed the above clause, advised that she quite agreed with the views...1969, The Law Society's Gazette - Volume 66, page 580
2. An interaction that introduces and leads to but is not yet a true exchange.
   • This co-construction of reading turns is made to happen in a series of preexchanges (Kendon 1977) in which the girls lead each other to a conversational slot where a joint beginning of the reading is possible.1983, Jürgen Streeck, Social Order in Child Communication: A study in microethnography, →ISBN

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