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prescreen

prescreen verb: to screen in advance for potential problems, especially as a preliminary screening before further screening.

Verb

prescreen (third-person singular simple present prescreens, present participle prescreening, simple past and past participle prescreened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To screen in advance for potential problems, especially as a preliminary screening before further screening.
    • We'll prescreen with a questionnaire, and for candidates who get past that stage, we'll screen further with an interview.
    • Opting out of prescreened offers of credit might also be useful when you apply for a mortgage.2007 January 20, Damon Darlin, “Don’t Call. Don’t Write. Let Me Be.”, in New York Times

Noun

prescreen (plural prescreens)

  1. A prescreening.

Forms of prescreen

Verb
third-person singular presentprescreens
present participleprescreening
past participleprescreened
pastprescreened
Noun
pluralprescreens

Origin of prescreen

From pre- + screen.

Questions about prescreen

What does prescreen mean?
Prescreen means to screen in advance for potential problems, especially as a preliminary screening before further screening.
What part of speech is prescreen?
Prescreen can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of prescreen?
The past tense of prescreen is prescreened.

Words near prescreen in the dictionary

  1. Prescott
  2. Prescott Valley
  3. Prescottian
  4. Prescotts
  5. prescratched
  6. prescreen
  7. prescreened
  8. prescreening
  9. prescreenings
  10. prescreens
  11. prescribability

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