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[ bih-fawr-hand, -fohr- ] / bɪˈfɔrˌhænd, -ˈfoʊr- / SEE SYNONYMS FOR beforehand ON THESAURUS.COM
adverb, adjectivein anticipation; in advance; ahead of time: We should have made reservations beforehand. I hope to be beforehand with my report. Origin of beforehandFirst recorded in 1175–1225, beforehand is from the Middle English word bifor-hand.See before, hand Words nearby beforehandbeflag, beflowered, befog, befool, before, beforehand, before long, before the wind, beforetime, before you can say Jack Robinson, before you know it Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for beforehandIn a series of meetings over the past year, Israel laid out to the U.S. beforehand what would trigger a strike in Syria. Israel’s Red Line Crossed, U.S. Tacitly Backs Ally’s Strikes in Syria|Eli Lake|May 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST Cheap gas has also rendered government-preferred energy sources like solar even more uneconomic than they were beforehand. David's Bookclub: The New New Deal|David Frum|December 1, 2012|DAILY BEAST Gilligan: That was an idea that we had many months beforehand. ‘Breaking Bad’: Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Emmy Nominations|Maria Elena Fernandez|September 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST And up until two hours beforehand, he was in the hospital with a kidney stone. Vicki Kennedy Remembers Ted Kennedy at the DNC|Lloyd Grove|September 5, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Though his performance went off without a hitch, Rogan was characteristically self-deprecating about it beforehand. Austrian Markus Rogan: Olympic Swimming’s Dark Horse|Robin Arzón|July 29, 2012|DAILY BEAST My reason for not telling you beforehand is that you would not have allowed me to go. The Poison Tree|Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Nature has marked out the path for us beforehand; there are snares in it, but also primroses, and it leads to peace. Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy|George Santayana It was not known to him beforehand whether his destination lay north, south, east, or west. The Petticoat Commando|Johanna Brandt "It may be that our coming has been foretold him beforehand," said Heregar. King Alfred's Viking|Charles W. Whistler He consoled himself with the reflection, however, that nobody had told him so beforehand. The Day of Wrath|Maurus Jkai
British Dictionary definitions for beforehand
adjective, adverb (postpositive)early; in advance; in anticipationshe came an hour beforehand Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to beforehandearlier, sooner, ahead, advanced, ahead of time, already, ante, before, fore, precocious, previous, previously, antecedently, in advance |