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precontact

adj

Etymology

From pre- + contact.

  1. derived from contactus
  2. prefixed as precontact — “pre + contact”

Definitions

  1. Before contact was established (especially with an indigenous people).

    • the precontact period

  2. An instance of contacting somebody in advance.

    • Precontacts may be less effective with homogeneous groups than with samples involving the general population.

  3. To contact somebody in advance.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for precontact. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA