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prestrike

prestrike adjective: before a strike (work stoppage as protest).

Adjective

prestrike (not comparable)

  1. Before a strike (work stoppage as protest).
  2. Before the striking motion of a snake.
    • The nine phases may be clustered into three subgroups: prestrike, strike, and poststrike behavior.1992, Carl Gans, Philip Steven Ulinski, Biology of the Reptilia, page 435

Origin of prestrike

From pre- + strike.

Questions about prestrike

What does prestrike mean?
Prestrike means before a strike (work stoppage as protest).
What part of speech is prestrike?
Prestrike is an adjective.

Words near prestrike in the dictionary

  1. prestretches
  2. prestretching
  3. prestriate
  4. Prestridge
  5. Prestridges
  6. prestrike
  7. prestriped
  8. prestroke
  9. prestrokes
  10. prestructural
  11. prestructure

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