Preexchange

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An exchange that takes place beforehand.

    "The solicitor acting for the vendor in one of these cases had cause to telephone the writer this afternoon to request an early date for exchange of contracts, and, upon being advised of the horror with which the writer had viewed the above clause, advised that she quite agreed with the views expressed, to whit that such a clause made mockery of the whole question of preexchange of contract enquiries, but said that this clause was now put into virtually all contracts prepared by Kent solicitors."

  2. 2
    An interaction that introduces and leads to but is not yet a true exchange.

    "This co-construction of reading turns is made to happen in a series of preexchanges (Kendon 1977) in which the girls lead each other to a conversational slot where a joint beginning of the reading is possible."

Verb
  1. 1
    To exchange beforehand.

    "Information indicating current associations of mask bits and nodal access ports, is preexchanged between access nodes via control signaling segments of multiple frames and maintained in storage at nodal concentration centers."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Occurring before an exchange. not-comparable

    "Reconsider preexchange financing strategy for alternative outcomes that may be more favorable to the parties."

Example

More examples

"Reconsider preexchange financing strategy for alternative outcomes that may be more favorable to the parties."

Etymology

From pre- + exchange.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.