preselect
verb
pre·se·lect
ˌprē-sə-ˈlekt 
preselected; preselecting; preselects
: to choose in advance usually on the basis of a particular criterion
Examples of preselect in a Sentence
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Customers preselect a one-hour slot for their delivery.
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Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
Travelers who want a meat-free meal on international routes should preselect their meals while purchasing their tickets or during check-in.
—cleveland, 29 May 2022
Jones, a philosophy professor, frequently presents her students with ethical conundrums, such as whether potential parents should preselect embryos with desirable traits.
—Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
Reed used a yellow highlighter to preselect 300 applications that signed voters up for the Indiana Democratic primary without their consent, according to the affidavit.
—Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
The car's automatic transmission uses GPS and map data to preselect appropriate gears for upcoming hills and curves.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
But critics fear that the new model, if adopted, will render the community powerless to stop a preselected site.
—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
Instead, its precious cargo will be consumers' preselected goods.
—Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 6 Feb. 2020
Ford made about 4,000 of them and buyers were not preselected.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
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Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2022
Travelers who want a meat-free meal on international routes should preselect their meals while purchasing their tickets or during check-in.
—cleveland, 29 May 2022
Jones, a philosophy professor, frequently presents her students with ethical conundrums, such as whether potential parents should preselect embryos with desirable traits.
—Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2022
Reed used a yellow highlighter to preselect 300 applications that signed voters up for the Indiana Democratic primary without their consent, according to the affidavit.
—Mckenzie Sadeghi, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2020
The car's automatic transmission uses GPS and map data to preselect appropriate gears for upcoming hills and curves.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 1 Sep. 2020
But critics fear that the new model, if adopted, will render the community powerless to stop a preselected site.
—Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
Instead, its precious cargo will be consumers' preselected goods.
—Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 6 Feb. 2020
Ford made about 4,000 of them and buyers were not preselected.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Jan. 2020
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First Known Use
circa 1859, in the meaning defined above
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“Preselect.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preselect. Accessed 4 Dec. 2023.
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