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prepublic

prepublic adjective: prior to availability to the general public.

Adjective

prepublic (not comparable)

  1. Prior to availability to the general public.
    • They pay sizable sums for tickets to the prepublic showings, which are then applied as credit toward purchases.1967, Karlyne Alice Anspach, The why of fashion
  2. Before becoming a public company in which anybody can buy shares.

Origin of prepublic

From pre- + public.

Questions about prepublic

What does prepublic mean?
Prepublic means prior to availability to the general public.
What part of speech is prepublic?
Prepublic is an adjective.

Words near prepublic in the dictionary

  1. prepubescent
  2. prepubescently
  3. prepubescents
  4. prepubic
  5. prepubis
  6. prepublic
  7. prepublication
  8. prepublications
  9. prepublicity
  10. prepublish
  11. prepublished

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prepublic (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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