predeclare
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editpredeclare (third-person singular simple present predeclares, present participle predeclaring, simple past and past participle predeclared)
- (transitive) To declare or announce beforehand.
- 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity[1]:
- their indefeasible power of predeclaring the eternal destiny of every living layman
- (transitive, programming) To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description, so that other preceding parts of the code can refer to it.
- Synonym: forward-declare