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单词 pre-need
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pre-need
pre-need adj.
Brit. /ˌpriːˈniːd/
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U.S. /ˌpriˈnid/
originally and chiefly U.S. (euphemistic) of or relating to provision for a person's own funeral, esp. designating a funeral plan, etc., bought prior to death; (more generally) of or relating to payment for a service or facility before it is needed.
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1945 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Courier 5 Mar. 3/6 (advt.) Who will pay the Funeral Bill?..Ask us today for details of our pre-need plan. No obligation.
1994 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 27 Jan. 2 The Get Out of Jail Free law.., enabling California to sell ‘pre-need’ immunity from prosecution to the state's wealthy.
1998 C. Mims When we Die (1999) vi. 163 Very successful campaigns of selling cemetery places to people before death (‘pre-need’ sales) took place in California in the 1960s.
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