PREARRANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prearrange mean? 

• PREARRANGE (verb)
  The verb PREARRANGE has 1 sense:

1. arrange beforehand

  Familiarity information: PREARRANGE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREARRANGE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they prearrange    ... he / she / it prearranges   
Past simple: prearranged   
Past participle: prearranged   
-ing form: prearranging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Arrange beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "prearrange" is one way to...):

arrange; set (adapt for performance in a different way)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

prearrangement (something arranged in advance)

 Context examples 

On a certain evening, which had been prearranged, I sent my friend final instructions, for the man was forever on the alert and continually changed his room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The matter was so prearranged that it is my belief that they brought with them some sort of block or pulley which might serve as a gallows.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion, especially one with a formal agenda.

(Conference, NCI Thesaurus)

Mrs. Norris was ready with her suggestions as to the rooms he would think fittest to be used, but found it all prearranged; and when she would have conjectured and hinted about the day, it appeared that the day was settled too.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about grewsome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

No doubt it had been prearranged in some fashion, for it was the fatal disc with the Red Circle upon it, the mandate for murder, which lay upon his palm.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Afterwards he had, to fulfill the prearranged cipher, to fill in any two words in each space.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When his companion and he had fled to some prearranged retreat—already occupied, no doubt by a confederate—the companion had persuaded him to leave so compromising an article of furniture.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Or could it be that there was a prearranged significance to such phrases as ‘fly paper’ and ‘hen pheasant’?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been arranged, therefore, that in such a case his two subordinates were to make for some prearranged spot where they could escape investigation and be in a position afterwards to renew their attempt.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)