pre-order

A form of preorder — To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.

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Meanings

adjectivepre-order (not comparable)
  1. alternativenot comparableAlternative form of preorder.
verbpre-order (third-person singular simple present pre-orders, present participle pre-ordering, simple past and past participle pre-ordered)

present singular third person pre-orders · participle present pre-ordering · participle past pre-ordered · past pre-ordered

  1. alternativeAlternative form of preorder.
    1 more example

    Where else in the world can you pre-order sushi and fondue on some of the trains, travel in family carriages equipped with mini-playgrounds, or use a request stop button at some small stations? Where else can you hear the announcement: "The train at Platform 4 is ten minutes late due to an incident in another country," as I did once at the Swiss station of Spiez?

    2025 October 15, Vitali Vitaliev, “The recipe for Swiss bliss”, in RAIL, number 1046, page 68
nounpre-order (plural pre-orders)

plural pre-orders

  1. alternativeAlternative form of preorder.
Cite this entry
APA

pre-order. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pre-order

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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