designating or of counseling, testing, etc. offered to students for career planning and placement in training programs
prevocational in American English
(ˌprivouˈkeiʃənl)
adjective
of, pertaining to, or constituting preliminary vocational training
Word origin
[1910–15; pre- + vocational]This word is first recorded in the period 1910–15. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: blackout, flashback, insulin, isotope, spotlightpre- 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 'prevocational' in a sentence
prevocational
After enrollment, they participated in a prevocational training group.
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