preorder

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preorder

  • /pɹiːˈɔːdə/ UK
  • /ˈpɹiˌoɹdɚ/ Canada, US
  • /ˌpɹiˈoɹdɚ/ Canada, US
  • /pɹiːˈoːdə/ Australia, New Zealand

verb preorders · preordering · preordered · pre-order

  1. intransitive, transitive To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available. Preorder now at website.com!
  2. transitive To sort or arrange beforehand.

noun preorders · pre-order

  1. An order for goods or services placed in advance. available for preorder
  2. A binary relation that is reflexive and transitive. The relation of logical implication over sentences is an example of a preorder.

Similar: quasiorder

adjective pre-order

  1. not comparable, of a traversal of a tree Such that, recursively, the root is visited before the left and right subtrees. Now, the preorder traversal of a tree can be constructed from the preorder traversals of the subtrees rooted at the children of the root of the tree.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: traversal, pre-order, foreorder, fore-order, prepurchase, prebuy, forebuy, prebook, forepay, backorder, prepay, presupply, prelease, preschedule, preobtain, preplace

noun

Similar: quasiorder

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verb to order in advance

Deutschvorbestellen
Ελληνικάπροπαραγγέλνω proparangélno

noun order in advance

DeutschVorbestellung
Ελληνικάπροπαραγγελία proparangelía
Русскийпредзаказ predzakaz

noun binary relation

Españolpreorden
DeutschPräordnung
Русскийпредпоря́док predporjádok

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@misc{preorder_2026,
  title = {preorder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/preorder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}