prescreen
English
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Verb
prescreen (third-person singular simple present prescreens, present participle prescreening, simple past and past participle prescreened)
- (ambitransitive) To screen in advance for potential problems, especially as a preliminary screening before further screening.
- We'll prescreen with a questionnaire, and for candidates who get past that stage, we'll screen further with an interview.
- 2007 January 20, Damon Darlin, “Don’t Call. Don’t Write. Let Me Be.”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 October 2025:
- Opting out of prescreened offers of credit might also be useful when you apply for a mortgage.
Noun
prescreen (plural prescreens)
- A prescreening.
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