as in requirement
something that must exist or happen before something else can exist or happen
An education is an important precondition for getting a good job. They insist on a guarantee as a precondition to the deal.
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Recent Examples of precondition
The report said negotiations will begin only if the other side accepts Iran's preconditions.
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Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2026
Iranian preconditions But question marks hang over the ceasefire and the talks' ultimate outcome.
—Azhar Sukri,kevin Breuninger,terri Cullen, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
The ceasefire announced by Trump on Tuesday night has been fragile, and both sides have accused the other of not meeting preconditions for the talks.
—Justin Fishel, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Some effort at persuasion seemed to be an accepted precondition for war.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
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Arkansas Online, 11 Apr. 2026
Iranian preconditions But question marks hang over the ceasefire and the talks' ultimate outcome.
—Azhar Sukri,kevin Breuninger,terri Cullen, CNBC, 11 Apr. 2026
The ceasefire announced by Trump on Tuesday night has been fragile, and both sides have accused the other of not meeting preconditions for the talks.
—Justin Fishel, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
Some effort at persuasion seemed to be an accepted precondition for war.
—Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for precondition
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precondition
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Those could be explicit requirements for a map to appear to be fair by certain statistical measures of partisanship.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
15 May 2026
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Under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), there is no residency requirement to file a lawsuit challenging a project’s environmental review.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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Fuel and fertilizer needed for the rice crop are just the latest necessities to become unaffordable in Rakhine state, which has been devastated by intense fighting between the Myanmar military and the Arakan Army (AA), one of the many rebel groups in the country.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
16 May 2026
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In a competitive labor market, flexibility may increasingly become an economic necessity rather than a workplace perk.—
ByBryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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The order stranded them indefinitely, sometimes in life-threatening conditions.—
Annie Hylton,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
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There are women who cannot carry pregnancies for a variety of reasons — genetic conditions, cancer and loss of uterus, for example.—
Ann Marie Luft,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 May 2026
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For a tribe to scale its businesses and effectively expand into different sectors, experience in one of these two industries is effectively a prerequisite, according to Ava LaPlante, a researcher at the Minneapolis Fed’s Center for Indian Country Development.—
Tristan Bove,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Additionally, nursing schools need to continue recruiting and positioning more male faculty to teach in prerequisite courses and engage with male students early on in their training.—
Nicholas A. Giordano,
STAT,
8 May 2026
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“Precondition.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precondition. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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