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pre·pro·duc·tion | \ ˌprē-prə-ˈdək-shən 
, -prō- \
, -prō- \variants:
or less commonly pre-production
Definition of preproduction
: the process of planning or designing something (such as a product or film) prior to production test-driving cars in preproduction visited possible filming sites during preproduction —often used before another nouna preproduction prototypepreproduction meetings with the director
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The first known use of preproduction was in 1947
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