Preplanning

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Planning conducted in advance uncountable

    "Financed and photographed by the writer-director himself, a Baltimore resident who raised the money by making TV commercials, it combines the rigors of elaborate preplanning with the bold risk taking of an aleatory event."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of preplan form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

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predetermine

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"Financed and photographed by the writer-director himself, a Baltimore resident who raised the money by making TV commercials, it combines the rigors of elaborate preplanning with the bold risk taking of an aleatory event."

Etymology

From pre- + planning.

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