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preregistered

preregistered is the simple past and past participle of preregister.

Meaning of preregister

Verb

preregister (third-person singular simple present preregisters, present participle preregistering, simple past and past participle preregistered)

  1. (intransitive) To register for something (especially for a course of education) prior to its start.
  2. (transitive) To register or enroll (a person, especially a student) prior to the start of something.
  3. (intransitive, transitive, methodology) To register (a study design and its planned statistical analysis) before the study by reporting (them) in the scientific literature via a registered report.

Adjective

preregistered (not comparable)

  1. registered in advance of some other event

Questions about preregistered

What does preregistered mean?
Preregistered means registered in advance of some other event.
What is preregistered the simple past and past participle of?
Preregistered is the simple past and past participle of preregister.
What part of speech is preregistered?
Preregistered is an adjective.

Words near preregistered in the dictionary

  1. prereflective
  2. prereform
  3. prereformational
  4. prerefunded
  5. preregister
  6. preregistered
  7. preregistering
  8. preregisters
  9. preregistration
  10. preregistrations
  11. preregnant

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preregistered (page history and authors); preregister (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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