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pregages

pregages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pregage.

Meaning of pregage

Verb

pregage (third-person singular simple present pregages, present participle pregaging, simple past and past participle pregaged)

  1. (obsolete) To preengage.
    • by oath pregaged to the pope1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
  2. (US) To gauge beforehand; to make an initial estimate of size, magnitude or position.
    • At the outset, however, he either failed utterly to pregage the possibilities of the method, or else through modesty declined to let his imagination take wings; for we find him, in an interview published in McClure's Magazine in 1897, when a considerable measure of success had been attained...1923, Henry Smith Williams, The Story of Modern Science- Volume 9, page 39

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What is pregages the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pregages is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pregage.

Words near pregages in the dictionary

  1. preg
  2. pregabalin
  3. pregabaline
  4. pregage
  5. pregaged
  6. pregages
  7. pregaging
  8. pregalactic
  9. pregame
  10. pregamed
  11. pregames

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