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Etymology

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pre- +‎ planning

Noun

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preplanning (uncountable)

  1. Planning conducted in advance
    • 1988 November 4, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Lies of the Mind”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Financed and photographed by the writer-director himself, a Baltimore resident who raised the money by making TV commercials, it combines the rigors of elaborate preplanning with the bold risk taking of an aleatory event.

Verb

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preplanning

  1. present participle and gerund of preplan