prepositioning
/P R IY0 P AH0 Z IH1 SH AH0 N IH0 NG/noun
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(grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
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(grammar, broad sense) An adposition.
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(obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
verb
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(sometimes proscribed) Alternative spelling of pre-position. [(transitive) To position (something) ahead of time. (The objects thus positioned are usually supplies, tools, instruments, weapons, or troops.)]
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