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prefinanced

prefinanced is the simple past and past participle of prefinance.

Meaning of prefinance

Verb

prefinance (third-person singular simple present prefinances, present participle prefinancing, simple past and past participle prefinanced)

  1. (transitive) To finance in advance.
    • It is expected to operate as a business, turning a profit and so on, and yet it is still subject to Congressional oversight and all sorts of legal constraints, like that ridiculous health benefit prefinancing for future employees, which was part of a big 2006 postal reorganization bill.2009 August 8, Joe Nocera, “It’s Time to Stay the Courier”, in New York Times

Questions about prefinanced

What is prefinanced the simple past and past participle of?
Prefinanced is the simple past and past participle of prefinance.

Words near prefinanced in the dictionary

  1. prefinalist
  2. prefinalists
  3. prefinalization
  4. prefinals
  5. prefinance
  6. prefinanced
  7. prefinances
  8. prefinancial
  9. prefinancing
  10. prefinancings
  11. prefine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prefinanced (page history and authors); prefinance (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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