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prerelease

prerelease adjective: before release.

Adjective

prerelease (not comparable)

  1. Before release.
    • They were aided by beta testers, ordinary people outside the company who were willing to try prerelease software and report bugs […]2004, William Poundstone, How Would You Move Mount Fuji?
    • In both years, only 10 to 12 percent had participated in formal prerelease programs designed to prepare prisoners for the transition from life in prison […]2006, Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, Bruce Western, Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration

Noun

prerelease (plural prereleases)

  1. A preliminary version of a work, released in advance.
  2. An inadvertent (premature) release of a skiboot from the bindings of a ski, caused by excessive vibration, such as going over an extremely bumpy piste.

Verb

prerelease (third-person singular simple present prereleases, present participle prereleasing, simple past and past participle prereleased)

  1. To release in advance

Forms of prerelease

Noun
pluralprereleases
Verb
third-person singular presentprereleases
present participleprereleasing
past participleprereleased
pastprereleased

Origin of prerelease

From pre- + release.

Questions about prerelease

What does prerelease mean?
Prerelease means before release.
What part of speech is prerelease?
Prerelease can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near prerelease in the dictionary

  1. prerelationship
  2. prerelax
  3. prerelaxed
  4. prerelaxes
  5. prerelaxing
  6. prerelease
  7. prereleased
  8. prereleases
  9. prereleasing
  10. prereligious
  11. preremission

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