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preregistering

preregistering is the present participle and gerund 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.

Questions about preregistering

What is preregistering the present participle and gerund of?
Preregistering is the present participle and gerund of preregister.

Words near preregistering in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preregistering (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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