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previsit

previsit adjective: prior to a visit.

Adjective

previsit (not comparable)

  1. Prior to a visit.
    • The importance and nature of the patient's previsit fantasies about the kind of relationship which will develop depends upon the social background and the personality of the patient.1960, Richard H. Blum, The management of the doctor-patient relationship, page 152
    • The previsit process is vital to ensuring accurate and timely receipt of information regarding the patient's ability to pay, yet many medical practices ignore this process.2004, Deborah L. Walker, Sara M. Larch, Elizabeth W. Woodcock, The Physician Billing Process, →ISBN

Noun

previsit (plural previsits)

  1. A prior visit.
    • Rosengarten brought children to the dentist for a previsit.1975, Brenda Van Zoost, Psychological Readings for the Dental Profession, page 42
    • No later than one (1) month prior to the scheduled on-site evaluation visit, the EPSB shall conduct a previsit to the institution to make a final review of the arrangements.2000, Administrative Register of Kentucky

Verb

previsit (third-person singular simple present previsits, present participle previsiting, simple past and past participle previsited)

  1. To visit beforehand.
    • In order to develop a file that will be especially helpful to you during student teaching, try to previsit your cooperating teacher and find out what specific areas you will be teaching with him.1959, Vincent McGuire, Your student teaching in the secondary school, page 127
    • Virilio, and indeed McLuhan before him, have commented on the tendency to previsit locations, through one medium or another; to actually arrive somewhere is no longer surprising in the way that it was; and indeed Virilio suggests it is bcoming replaced by prevision.2002, Barry Brown, Nicola Green, Richard Harper, Wireless world: social and interactional aspects of the mobile age, →ISBN

previsit meaning in Tamil

previsit in Tamil

முந்தைய வருகை

Examples of previsit in a sentence

  • Preaudit preparation will include obtaining previsit information from facilities targeted for auditing, preparing the audit plan, developing the audit protocol, and establishing a schedule.2010, Michael D. LaGrega, Phillip L. Buckingham, Jeffrey C. Evans, Hazardous Waste Management, →ISBN, page 341:
  • Maybe my awkward encounter in 1967 was really a previsit from Alessandra?2008, David Amadeus Panckeri, Love Is Lust First: An Autobiography of Passion, →ISBN, page 49:

Forms of previsit

Noun
pluralprevisits
Verb
third-person singular presentprevisits
present participleprevisiting
past participleprevisited
pastprevisited

Origin of previsit

From pre- + visit.

Questions about previsit

What does previsit mean?
Previsit means prior to a visit.
What is previsit in Tamil?
Previsit in Tamil is முந்தைய வருகை. See Previsit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use previsit in a sentence?
Preaudit preparation will include obtaining previsit information from facilities targeted for auditing, preparing the audit plan, developing the audit protocol, and establishing a schedule.
What part of speech is previsit?
Previsit can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.

Words near previsit in the dictionary

  1. previsional
  2. previsionary
  3. previsioned
  4. previsioning
  5. previsions
  6. previsit
  7. previsitation
  8. previsited
  9. previsiting
  10. previsits
  11. previsive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: previsit (page history and authors); previsit (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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