precredit en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + credit.
Meanings
- (not-comparable) Before credit is taken into account.
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(not-comparable) Before the credits (of a television programme, etc.).
There is no precredit compassion expressed in “Side Street”: In place of Ray’s protective, implied narrator there is the professionally gruff voice of Paul Kelly, an actor who specialized in coldly professional New York City police detectives.
2007 July 31, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs”, in New York Times: