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pretournament

pretournament adjective: occurring before, or in preparation for, a tournament. Also the alternative form of pre-tournament.

Adjective

pretournament (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before, or in preparation for, a tournament
    • "I think there's a lot of things I can learn from him," said Kim, who already has modeled his pretournament routine after Woods's.2009 January 8, Larry Dorman, “With Woods Absent, Youthful Newcomers Prepare to Challenge”, in New York Times

Also used as

pretournament is also the alternative form of pre-tournament.

Forms of pretournament

Adjective
alternative formpre-tournament
Noun
pluralpretournaments

Origin of pretournament

From pre- + tournament.

Questions about pretournament

What does pretournament mean?
Pretournament means occurring before, or in preparation for, a tournament.
What part of speech is pretournament?
Pretournament is an adjective.

Words near pretournament in the dictionary

  1. pretotyped
  2. pretotypes
  3. pretotyping
  4. pretouch
  5. pretour
  6. pretournament
  7. pretournaments
  8. pretours
  9. pretracheal
  10. pretracheophyte
  11. pretracheophytes

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