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preplanning

preplanning noun: planning conducted in advance. Also the present participle and gerund of preplan.

Noun

preplanning (uncountable)

  1. Planning conducted in advance
    • Financed and photographed by the writer-director himself, a Baltimore resident who raised the money by making TV commercials, it combines the rigors of elaborate preplanning with the bold risk taking of an aleatory event.1988 November 4, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Lies of the Mind”, in Chicago Reader

Also used as

preplanning is also the present participle and gerund of preplan.

Origin of preplanning

From pre- + planning.

Questions about preplanning

What does preplanning mean?
Preplanning means planning conducted in advance.
What part of speech is preplanning?
Preplanning is a noun.

Words near preplanning in the dictionary

  1. preplanetesimal
  2. preplanetesimals
  3. preplanned
  4. preplanner
  5. preplanners
  6. preplanning
  7. preplans
  8. preplant
  9. preplanted
  10. preplanting
  11. preplants

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