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preengagement

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

Prior engagement or obligation, for example by contract or promise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy My pre-engagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write.
  • unchangeable preengagement

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Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From pre- + engagement.