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    pre·lim·i·nar·y
    [prəˈliməˌnerē]
    noun
    preliminaries (plural noun)
    1. an action or event preceding or preparing for something fuller or more important:
      "the bombardment was resumed as a preliminary to an infantry attack"
      • (preliminaries)
        business or talk, especially of a formulaic or polite nature, taking place before an action or event:
        "she began speaking, without preliminaries"
      • a preliminary round in a sporting competition.
      • (preliminaries)
        the prelims or front matter of a book.
    Origin
    mid 17th century: from modern Latin praeliminaris or French préliminaire, from Latin prae ‘before’ + limen, limin- ‘threshold’.
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    1. an action or event preceding or preparing for something fuller or more important:
     
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  1. : something that precedes or is introductory or preparatory: such as a : a preliminary heat or trial (as of a race) b : a minor match preceding the main event (as of a boxing card) c : a preliminary scholastic examination
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    an event or action that introduces or prepares for something else: After a few polite preliminaries (= introductions), we stated our main ideas and intentions. The French team finished first in the competition preliminaries (= the first part of the competition).
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