See also: prearrange

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Verb edit

pre-arrange (third-person singular simple present pre-arranges, present participle pre-arranging, simple past and past participle pre-arranged)

  1. Alternative spelling of prearrange.
    • 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter X, in Sense and Sensibility [], volume III, London: [] C[harles] Roworth, [], and published by T[homas] Egerton, [], →OCLC, page 223:
      Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfil her parting injunction.