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prevet

prevet verb: to vet or check in advance.

Verb

prevet (third-person singular simple present prevets, present participle prevetting, simple past and past participle prevetted)

  1. (transitive) To vet or check in advance.
    • The first is that, in part, Nominet took over the operation of .uk precisely because prevetting of domain names was not working.2009, Lee A. Bygrave, Jon Bing, Internet governance: infrastructure and institutions, page 210

Forms of prevet

third-person singular presentprevets
present participleprevetting
past participleprevetted
pastprevetted

Origin of prevet

From pre- + vet.

Questions about prevet

What does prevet mean?
Prevet means to vet or check in advance.
What part of speech is prevet?
Prevet is a verb.
What is the past tense of prevet?
The past tense of prevet is prevetted.

Words near prevet in the dictionary

  1. prevertebrate
  2. prevertical
  3. preverts
  4. preves
  5. prevesical
  6. prevet
  7. prevets
  8. Prevette
  9. prevetted
  10. Prevettes
  11. prevetting

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