prepopulate

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English

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Etymology

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From pre- +‎ populate.

Verb

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prepopulate (third-person singular simple present prepopulates, present participle prepopulating, simple past and past participle prepopulated)

  1. (transitive, computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.
    Hyponym: warm
    • 2009, Cody Lindley, jQuery Cookbook:
      However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.
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