PRE-ORDER | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of pre-order in English pre-orderverb [ I or T ] uk /ˌpriːˈɔː.dər/ us /ˌpriːˈɔːr.dɚ/ Add to word list Add to word list to order (= request to buy) a product before it has become available: To pre-order the album, visit our website. As soon as I hear he has another book coming out, I'm logging on to pre-order. pre-ordernoun [ C or U ] uk /ˌpriːˈɔː.dər/ us /ˌpriːˈɔːr.dɚ/ an act of ordering (= requesting to buy) a product before it has become available: The book will come out 28 August and is available for pre-order on various internet sites. The handbag is not yet available, but pre-orders are being taken online. Buying & selling - general words

• all-you-can-eat
• anti-consumer
• anti-dumping
• back order
• barter
• dealership
• desk research
• distribution channel
• do business with someone/something
• dumping
• ebay
• hock
• package deal
• pawn
• pre-emption
• procurement
• resale
• shelf
• tender
• the bottom drops/falls out of the market idiom

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pre-order With the logical 'and' as the tensor product of 2, a 2-category is then nothing but a pre-order. From the Cambridge English Corpus To compare the knowledge of environments we use the following pre-order. From the Cambridge English Corpus Then the relation 6 is a pre-order and the relation is an equivalence relation. From the Cambridge English Corpus The relation is an equivalence because is a pre-order. From the Cambridge English Corpus The pre-order restriction is more limiting that the safe-unsafe criteria of our generalised deforestation, but the on-line cyclic restriction is something extra. From the Cambridge English Corpus A pre-order is a reflexive and transitive binary relation. From the Cambridge English Corpus The trick is to consider a pre-order traversal of the tree, in which subtrees can be simply encoded as intervals. From the Cambridge English Corpus We are stating here a much stronger property that specifies that queries are monotone with respect to a pre-order that is defined on values (forests, in this case). From the Cambridge English Corpus Reductions form a pre-order on representations. From the Cambridge English Corpus The advice we have given to water authorities means that they may pre-order pipes and other materials during the moratorium period. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pre-order package allowed cell phone users to access a special site featuring image and music downloads. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Exactly one year from the announcement, the beta was made available for pre-order customers without prior warning. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The game's original soundtrack came bundled with the original game as a pre-order bonus. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Customers are able to pre-order at each dealership on a first-come, first-served basis. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Interactive partnered with several retail outlets on a pre-order incentive. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of pre-order These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of pre-order?

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in Chinese (Traditional) 預訂，預購… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 预订，预购… See more Need a translator?

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