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prevetting

prevetting is the present participle and gerund of prevet.

Meaning of prevet

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

Questions about prevetting

What is prevetting the present participle and gerund of?
Prevetting is the present participle and gerund of prevet.

Words near prevetting in the dictionary

  1. prevet
  2. prevets
  3. Prevette
  4. prevetted
  5. Prevettes
  6. prevetting
  7. Preveza
  8. previa
  9. previable
  10. previdential
  11. preview

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prevetting (page history and authors); prevet (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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