prepresidential 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 presidential English prepresidential From pre- + presidential.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to the period before a person's ascent to the presidency of a country
President Nixon made a gift of prepresidential papers to the government just in time for a substantial deduction on his income tax return for 1968.
1973 December 10, George Lardner, Jr., “Earlier Nixon Deduction for Gift Disclosed”, in Los Angeles Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013: