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▪ I. pre-reˈlease, a. (n.)
[pre- B. 2.]
1. a. Designating a period before the date fixed for release of a film.
1927Glasgow Herald 15 Nov. 9/7 An amendment..providing that pre-release cinema shows should take place in provincial centres as well as in London was agreed to without a division. 1928Daily Express 9 July 9 There is a pre-release presentation of Dolores del Rio in ‘The Gateway of the Moon’, at the Kensington Kinema. 1973Times 11 May 2/6 The film..had only been booked for five prerelease test runs at cinemas in Leeds. 1976L. St. Clair Fortune in Death vii. 68 He's made..a Near East thriller. They wanted some pre-release publicity.
b. Of or pertaining to the period before release of a suspect or prisoner.
1958F. Norman Bang to Rights iii. 106 You have to atend [sic] what they call a prerelease course. 1959New Statesman 7 Mar. 335/2, I am very glad that Critic called attention to the scheme for pre-release leave to selected prisoners. 1961Lancet 22 July 204/1 Such measures as the open prison and the pre-release hostel were proving invaluable. 1971R. Cross Punishment, Prison & Public ii. 68 Attached to some prisons are pre-release hostels from which the inmates go out to daily regular work. 1976Newmarket Jrnl. 16 Dec., The first mention of any possible charge relating to drink-driving came after he had given a blood sample and a pre-release breath test.
2. ellipt. as n. A film or record given restricted availability before being generally released.
1929Sunday Dispatch 13 Jan. 16/3 We, in London, have been privileged to view many pre-releases. 1978Sunday Times 29 Jan. 43/3 ‘Top Ranking’ started life in Britain as a status single, available only as an imported ‘pre-release’.
▪ II. pre-reˈlease, v.
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To release beforehand.
1968Punch 24 Apr. 589/1 There's a lot to be said for pre-releasing the decimal coinage at the lower end of the scale. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 147 We had pre-released the news to the Daily Express, the Guardian and the Evening Standard. 1976Church Times 2 Apr. 10/1 He persistently declines to extend to the Press that assistance (such as circulating in advance scripts of major speeches, or sticking to the text of speeches thus pre-released) which so greatly facilitates newspaper production. |