Definition of prescreen
prescreened
or pre-screened;
prescreening
or pre-screening
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
