foreorder

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verb

To order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.

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Meanings

verbforeorder (third-person singular simple present foreorders, present participle foreordering, simple past and past participle foreordered)

present singular third person foreorders · participle present foreordering · participle past foreordered · past foreordered · alternative fore-order

  1. raretransitiveTo order beforehand or in advance; pre-order.

    And I foreorder and Ordain, That ere the sixth red moon shall wane, Those brothers' swords shall cross again, And the true shall smite down the false within the Virgin's waste domain.

    1863, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record, a Diary of American Events
nounforeorder (plural not attested)

alternative fore-order

  1. no pluralrareAn order made in advance.

    This guilt is an indication of a fore-order of Being-in-the-wrong (Im-Unrecht-sein), a fundamentally wrongful or “incorrect” mode of Being that constitutes Dasein's mundane existence.

    1999, Panu Minkkinen, Thinking Without Desire: A First Philosophy of Law - Page 78

Origin

From fore- + order.

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APA

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MLA

“foreorder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreorder. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foreorder,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreorder.

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