describing a class for children who are too young to enrol in primary school
2. US
describing the period before a primary election
preprimary in American English
(priˈpraimeri, -məri)
adjective
Politics
preceding a primary election
preprimary endorsement
Word origin
[pre- + primary]pre- 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)
Examples of 'preprimary' in a sentence
preprimary
We present qualitative findings from several counties to describe how government bodies invest in additional elements of preprimary quality improvement.
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