to artificially cool or chill (meat, produce, etc) in advance, as before packaging, shipping, etc
We precool our fruit shipment.
precool in American English
(priˈkul)
verb transitive
to cool or refrigerate before packing or shipment
precool in American English
(priˈkuːl)
transitive verb
to cool in advance; cool artificially, as meat or fresh produce, before shipping
Derived forms
precooler
noun
Word origin
[1900–05; pre- + cool]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: burnout, elder statesman, geopolitics, hormone, throwawaypre- is a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before”(preclude; prevent); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,”“beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings (preschool; prewar; prepay: preoral; prefrontal)