prepurchase

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verb

pre·pur·chase ˌprē-ˈpər-chəs

variants or pre-purchase

prepurchased or pre-purchased; prepurchasing or pre-purchasing

transitive verb

: to purchase (something) in advance

You can prepurchase tickets to pick up at the box office.

prepurchase

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adjective

variants or pre-purchase

: occurring before a purchase

prepurchase inspection of a used car

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Verb

Like many industrial buyers, the company had prepurchased its power at a fraction of the price available to residential customers. —

Gabriel J.x. Dance Zach Levitt, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023 Shopify is among the tech companies pledging to prepurchase $1 billion worth of carbon credits from startups like Running Tide, with the hope that other corporations will follow. —

Bill Weir, CNN, 22 May 2022

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