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pre- +‎ accept

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preaccept (third-person singular simple present preaccepts, present participle preaccepting, simple past and past participle preaccepted)

  1. (transitive) To accept beforehand.
    • 2020, Dincer Atli, Analyzing the Strategic Role of Neuromarketing and Consumer Neuroscience, page 150:
      The first of the common anti-positivist qualifications of post-positivism and hermeneutics paradigm is that they preaccept the “reality is complex.”