preactionとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /pɹiˈækʃən/

名詞

preaction (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 preactions)

1. previous action
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica

     Now, if an iron be touched before, it varieth not in this manner; for then it admits not this magnetical impression, as being already informed by the loadstone, and polarily determined by its preaction.

アナグラム

• captioner, precation, recaption

形容詞

pre-action (not comparable)

1. Before an action takes place, especially a legal action.
   • 2020 December 2, Barry Doe, “National Rail Timetable changes and reductions”, in Rail, page 73:

     He concludes: "This letter is written in contemplation of legal proceedings, and is a pre-action protocol letter within the meaning of the Civil Procedure Rules 1998."