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单词 preplace
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preplacev.

Brit. /priːˈpleɪs/, U.S. /ˌpriˈpleɪs/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, place v.
Etymology: < pre- prefix + place v.
1.
a. transitive. To put in place beforehand.
ΚΠ
1904 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 13 Apr. 8/1 The poems, which consist of fourteen parodies of Chaucer, are preplaced with an introduction by H.B. Marriott-Watson.
1962 Times 31 Aug. 19/4 The faces are attached to these cores by a brazing material, generally used as a foil pre-placed in the brazing fixture.
1973 J. G. Tweedale Materials Technol. ii. v. 113 In adhesive bonding and some brazing operations the filler is preplaced before closing the joint.
2004 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 4 Oct. e1 Wilson slithers up the rock cliff like Spider-Man to set a sport climbing route by attaching ropes to the bolts that have been preplaced in the rock face.
b. transitive. Stock Market. To sell (shares, holdings, etc.) to a buyer or group of buyers in advance of a public sale. Cf. place v. 6a(b).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations
subscribe1618
to take up1655
to sell out1721
to take in1721
to take up1740
pool?1780
capitalize1797
put1814
feed1818
to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819
corner1836
to sell short1852
promote1853
recapitalize1856
refund1857
float1865
water1865
margin1870
unload1870
acquire1877
maintain1881
syndicate1882
scalp1886
pyramid1888
underwrite1889
oversubscribe1891
joint-stock1894
wash1895
write1908
mark1911
split1927
marry1931
stag1935
unwind1958
short1959
preplace1966
unitize1970
bed and breakfast1974
index-link1974
warehouse1977
daisy-chain1979
strip1981
greenmail1984
pull1986
1966 Times 4 Mar. 17/4 The whole trust..will be a £15m. affair with £9m. worth of units subject to the offer for sale and £6m. pre-placed with institutions and clients.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. ii. 19 The bulk of this issue, which was launched on Friday, was preplaced leading to a shortage of paper for investors seeking to buy into a rare fixed rate issue by a Swiss bank.
2001 Euroweek (Nexis) 12 Jan. 41 Overall, the deal was viewed a success, with two-thirds of the deal preplaced and almost 90% of the transaction having been sold by yesterday.
2. transitive. To place (a word or element) before a word; = prefix v. 6. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > use morphemes [verb (transitive)] > add as prefix or suffix
prefix1605
suffix1778
postfix1823
preplace1905
1905 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 10 June 4/2 (advt.) The proverb goes, ‘Competition is the life of trade.’ We amend this by preplacing the word honor to the sentence and saying ‘Honorable competition is the life of trade.’
1946 I. Schapera Bantu-Speaking Tribes of S. Afr. xiv. 329 Nouns commencing in the vowel i, lower the tone on that vowel and may preplace y-, e.g. imbuzi (goat) > yimbuzi (it is a goat).

Derivatives

preˈplaced adj.
ΚΠ
1946 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 29 Aug. 14/1 Only a relatively small amount of material and equipment must be smuggled into a country for the construction of a preplaced bomb.
1998 R. D. Carnes Sacred Circles 105 She would purposefully set up the room so that when people entered they had to sit in a circle of preplaced chairs.
2003 Wall St. Jrnl. 14 Feb. c10/5 Selling by ‘day traders’ hammered prices through preplaced sell orders from speculators.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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