| prefab | (adjective) manufactured in standard sizes to be shipped and assembled elsewhere | - |
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| (noun) a prefabricated structure | - |
| prefabricate | (verb) to manufacture sections of (a building), especially in a factory, so that they can be easily transported to and rapidly assembled on a building site of buildings | Synonyms: preassemble |
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| (verb) produce synthetically, artificially, or stereotypically and unoriginally | - |
| prefabrication | (noun) the manufacture of sections of a building at the factory so they can be easily and rapidly assembled at the building site | - |
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| preface | (noun) a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book | Synonyms: foreword, prolusion |
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| (verb) furnish with a preface or introduction | Synonyms: introduce, precede, premise |
| prefaded | (adjective) (of fabric or clothing) having been given a faded (weathered) appearance by artificial means | - |
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| prefatorial | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatory |
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| prefatory | (adjective) serving as an introduction or preface | Synonyms: introductory, prefatorial |
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| prefect | (noun) a chief officer or chief magistrate | - |
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| prefectural | (adjective) of or relating to a prefecture | - |
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| prefecture | (noun) the office of prefect | - |
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| (noun) the district administered by a prefect (as in France or Japan or the Roman Empire) | - |
| prefer | (verb) select as an alternative over another | Synonyms: choose, opt |
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| (verb) like better; value more highly | - |
| (verb) promote over another | Synonyms: favor, favour |
| (verb) give preference to one creditor over another | - |
| preferable | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferred |
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| preferably | (adverb) more readily or willingly | Synonyms: rather, sooner |
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| preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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| (noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
| (noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
| (noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
| preferent | (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferred |
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| preferential | (adjective) manifesting partiality | Synonyms: discriminatory |
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| preferentially | (adverb) in a preferential manner | - |
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| preferment | (noun) the act of preferring | - |
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| (noun) the act of making accusations | - |
| preferred | (adjective) more desirable than another | Synonyms: preferable |
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| (adjective) preferred above all others and treated with partiality | Synonyms: best-loved, favored, favorite, favoured, favourite, pet, preferent |
| prefiguration | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, foreshadowing |
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| (noun) an example that prefigures or foreshadows what is to come | - |
| prefigurative | (adjective) indistinctly prophetic | Synonyms: adumbrative, foreshadowing |
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| prefigure | (verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, presage, prognosticate |
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| (verb) imagine or consider beforehand | - |
| prefix | (noun) an affix that is added in front of the word | - |
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| (verb) attach a prefix to | - |
| prefixation | (noun) formation of a word by means of a prefix | - |
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| preform | (verb) form or shape beforehand or determine the shape of beforehand | - |
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| (verb) form into a shape resembling the final, desired one | - |
| preformation | (noun) a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell | Synonyms: theory of preformation |
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| prefrontal | (adjective) anterior to a frontal structure | - |
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