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prepubliˈcation, a. and n.
[pre- B. 2.]
A. adj. Produced, issued, or occurring in advance of publication.
1922F. Scott Fitzgerald Let. 6 Feb. (1964) 332 A pre-publication review which contained private information destined..to hurt the sale of my book. 1936Amer. Speech XI. 171/1 The prepublication announcement and the blurb on the jacket of his recent book. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Crit. iii. iv. 78 It constituted a pre-publication state decided on before public sale could have offered any opportunity for objections. 1977Time 13 June 60/2 Seldom has an anthology of critical essays aroused so much prepublication anxiety as Diana Trilling's We Must March My Darlings.
B. n. [pre- A. 2.] The action or fact of publishing beforehand; publication in advance.
1971Nature 30 Apr. 547/3 In the opinion of the editor..an article about the paper that had appeared in Medical World News contained so much of its substance..as to constitute prepublication and disqualify its claims for space in a journal that aims to publish original material. 1975P. Harcourt Fair Exchange ii. iii. 105 This book..where did you get it?..you realize it's pre-publication? |