Whether you are a student looking for a term to use in an essay or a professional looking for the right word to use in a report, this list of words with the prefix ‘pre’ is sure to be of help. The …

The meaning of PRE- is earlier than : prior to : before. How to use pre- in a sentence.

An easy way to remember that the prefix pre- means “before” is through the word pre vent, for when you come “before” something else to stop it from happening, you pre vent it.

4 days ago · Before; earlier in time; beforehand. This prefix is usually prefixed to words without using a hyphen (for example, prefix, predate). A hyphen is used in the following cases:

The bank's U.S. operation reported first-half pre-tax income of $217.5 million. Financial controls became lax during the pre-crash boom.

See examples of pre- used in a sentence.

Pre- is used to form words that indicate that something takes place before a particular date, period, or event. ...his pre-war job. ...pre-1971 cars. ...life in pre-industrial England.