preelection

English edit

Etymology edit

pre- +‎ election

Noun edit

preelection (countable and uncountable, plural preelections)

An election beforehand.

Adjective edit

preelection (not comparable)

Before an election.

Alternative forms edit

pre-election
preëlection (rare)

Translations edit

before an election

Armenian: նախընտրական (hy) (naxəntrakan)
Belarusian: перадвы́барны (pjeradvýbarny)
Greek: προεκλογικός (el) (proeklogikós)
Polish: przedwyborczy (pl)
Russian: предвы́борный (ru) (predvýbornyj)
Serbo-Croatian: пре̏дизбо̄рнӣ, prȅdizbōrnī (sh)
Ukrainian: передви́борчий (peredvýborčyj)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “preelection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)