pre·screen | \ ˌprē-ˈskrēn 
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\variants:
or pre-screen
prescreened or pre-screened; prescreening or pre-screening
Definition of prescreen
1 : to screen (someone or something) in a preliminary way
prescreen job applicants … a prescreened and carefully selected audience …— Noemie Emery A computer could prescreen mammograms, and then radiologists would view only those images that contain suspicious signs.— Karen F. Schmidt
2 : to show a preliminary screening of (something, such as a film)
… of those 10 movies, more than half weren't pre-screened for the critics.— Richard Freedman
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The first known use of prescreen was in 1923
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