prenegotiated en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-i Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i? Proto-Italic *prai Proto-Italic *prai- Latin prae-lbor. Middle English pre- English pre- English negotiated English prenegotiated From pre- + negotiated.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Negotiated in advance
Movie Gallery, which operates about 4,430 stores in the United States and Canada, entered a prenegotiated filing in Federal Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Virginia.
2007 October 17, Reuters, “Chapter 11 for a Video Rental Chain”, in New York Times: