of or pertaining to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession
preprofessional training
Word origin
[1945–50; pre- + professional]This word is first recorded in the period 1945–50. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: beeper, fail-safe, individual medley, shootout, synchronized swimmingpre- 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 'preprofessional' in a sentence
preprofessional
This, surely, is still the central aim of preprofessional undergraduate education.