单词 | prearrange |
释义 | prearrange (once / 9064 pages) v When you plan something well in advance, you prearrange it. If a reporter prearranges every interview question with a politician, the answers will probably come out sounding too polished and phony. Whenever people agree on or organize the details of something before it happens, they prearrange it. Many things in life benefit from being prearranged: spies need to prearrange meeting places and code words, and new parents usually prearrange gear like car seats and diapers before the birth of their child. Prearrange adds the "before" prefix pre- to arrange, from the Old French a, "to," and rangier, "set in a row." WORD FAMILYprearrange: prearranged, prearrangement, prearranges, prearranging+/arrange: arranged, arrangement, arranger, arranges, arranging, disarrange, prearrange, rearrange/arrangement: arrangements/arranger: arrangers/arranging: arrangings/disarrange: disarranged, disarrangement, disarranges, disarranging/disarrangement: disarrangements/prearrangement: prearrangements/rearrange: rearranged, rearrangement, rearranges, rearranging/rearrangement: rearrangements USAGE EXAMPLESIts prearranged bankruptcy plan contemplates a small recovery for shareholders. Wall Street Journal(Dec 08, 2016) “Naked,” we read, is the term for a work offered at auction without a prearranged guarantee — as was the case with that Richter at Sotheby’s. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) And yet it’s also important to remember, as we all reflect on a musical’s impact, that in these cases the emotional component comes prearranged. Washington Post(Sep 16, 2016) v arrange beforehand Hyper arrange, set adapt for performance in a different way |
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