| 释义 |
prearrange, v.|priːəˈreɪndʒ|
Also with hyphen.
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To arrange beforehand.
1811Jane Austen Sense & Sens. III. vii. 133 With..the service pre-arranged in his mind, he offered himself as the messenger. 1851J. Martineau Stud. Chr. (1858) 281 A theatre whose scenery is not all pre-arranged. 1896Barrie Marg. Ogilvy x, A sign, prearranged between us.
So preaˈrranged ppl. a., arranged beforehand; preaˈrrangement, action of pre-arranging or fact of being pre-arranged; previous arrangement.
1775De Lolme Eng. Constit. ii. xxi. (1784) 340 By a happy pre-arrangement of things. 1875Poste Gaius iv. Comm. (ed. 2) 503 Pre-determined conditions, and pre-arranged, pre-capitulated stipulations. Ibid. 638 There took place, by prearrangement, a molestation of one of the litigants. |