preplanning

English

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 planning

English preplanning

From pre- + planning.

Noun

preplanning (uncountable)

1. Planning conducted in advance
   • 1988 November 4, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Lies of the Mind”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     Financed and photographed by the writer-director himself, a Baltimore resident who raised the money by making TV commercials, it combines the rigors of elaborate preplanning with the bold risk taking of an aleatory event.

Verb

preplanning

1. present participle and gerund of preplan