Synonym: preceding, prior. Similar words: eliminate, to the limit, seminar, discrimination, limitation, missionary, timing, relief. Meaning: [prɪ'lɪmɪnərɪ] n. 1. a minor match preceding the main event 2. something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows. adj. designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding.
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121 Last month, the agency gave Lilly a preliminary approval to market it for bulimia.
122 The documents used during the preliminary hearing may not, subject to limited exceptions, be used at the trial.
123 At the time of the preliminary hearing in February, Maria was still clinging to life.
124 The government will release a preliminary estimate of full-year gross domestic product tomorrow.
125 As a preliminary to this, it is necessary to describe something of the historical background to interwar West Ham.
126 Flexibility is the keynote and is a feature often recommended in pilot studies preliminary to a full-scale study.
127 Franks made his preliminary examination of the body, dictating brief comments to his secretary.
128 Judge Walker set Nov. 14 as the date for hearing arguments on a preliminary injunction covering the same subject matter.
129 This can be corrected at the pre-trial review or preliminary arbitration hearing.
130 However, since franchising began in 1994, only 420 applicants had failed to pass the preliminary audit.
131 The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.
132 Much of this seems to be at least a preliminary documentation of what has happened that is already known.
133 Preliminary plans also include a 2,100-room themed hotel, restaurants, retail and entertainment complexes.
134 So far only a preliminary amount of work has been carried out in order to assess the restoration work required.
135 Gans' preliminary estimate about the Tuesday turnout means the spurt four years ago was an exception to the trend.
136 Just a preliminary communication first, without the experimental details, so that nobody can jump on the bandwagon right away.
137 A preliminary autopsy report showed he had a slightly enlarged heart, not unusual for an athlete.
138 Rituals and Cults Moving house; preliminary and formal procedures, packing, redecorating etc.
139 He felt that this would be a sensible preliminary to trying to negotiate with the aboriginal community.
140 Frozen chicken livers are already cleaned, so if they are being used the only preliminary required is the thawing-out process.
141 There were no task forces, no special commissions, no proposed possible preliminary outlines of conceivable tentative recommendations.
142 Further work is under way to map the human gene in detail but preliminary results support the localisation to human chromosome 11.
143 The preliminary investigation showed that Jeremy was more highly qualified and that management had made a sound decision.
144 The questions on both forms are broadly identical to those contained on the more traditional preliminary enquiry forms.
145 Anyway, in the course of these preliminary studies I succeeded in identifying certain exceedingly small but specific bodies in genes.
146 Another group has published preliminary findings on alkaline secretion in a balloon occluded segment of human oesophagus.
147 All are in the preliminary stages, until architectural historians survey each house to determine which have historic value.
148 A preliminary taxonomic study on Sapotaceae in Guangdong.
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149 Preliminary data are due to be released in April.
150 Central Election Chief Vladimir Churov announced the preliminary results at a Monday morning news conference in the Russian capital.
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