prefiling

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adjective

Before filing

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Meanings

adjectiveprefiling (not comparable)
  1. not comparableBefore filing

    No user fee is required to hold a prefiling conference.

    1995, Tax Management Portfolios - Issue 890, page 3406
    2 more examples

    The prefiling box is a small box about the size of one in which 100 file folders are packed.

    1986, Pat Dorff, File...Don't Pile, →ISBN, page 161

    Once the prefiling process has been successfully complied, the applicant may submit a permit application for further FERC review.

    2014, Turan Gonen, Electrical Power Transmission System Engineering, →ISBN

Origin

From pre- + filing.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

pilfering
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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