pre-positioned in English

[Show JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for postprocessed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre-",
        "3": "position",
        "4": "-ed"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "pre-positioned",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "32 68",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with pre-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "42 58",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ed",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "16 84",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 87",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "pre-position"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "simple past and past participle of pre-position"
      ],
      "id": "en-pre-positioned-en-verb-nWfhTBxA",
      "links": [
        [
          "pre-position",
          "pre-position#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pre-positioned"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre-",
        "3": "position",
        "4": "-ed"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pre-positioned (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "text": "The pre-positioned surgical instruments stood ready in trays on a numbered rack.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              58,
              72
            ]
          ],
          "text": "It was deemed necessary to keep at least three battalions pre-positioned in case of a breakout.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having been pre-positioned."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "positioned"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-pre-positioned-en-adj-Au56BDXy",
      "links": [
        [
          "pre-positioned",
          "#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pre-positioned"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms prefixed with pre-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ed",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre-",
        "3": "position",
        "4": "-ed"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
      "expansion": "pre-positioned",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "pre-position"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "simple past and past participle of pre-position"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pre-position",
          "pre-position#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pre-positioned"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms prefixed with pre-",
    "English terms suffixed with -ed",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English verb forms",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "pre-",
        "3": "position",
        "4": "-ed"
      },
      "expansion": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed",
      "name": "surf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "By surface analysis, pre- + position + -ed.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "pre-positioned (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              18
            ]
          ],
          "text": "The pre-positioned surgical instruments stood ready in trays on a numbered rack.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              58,
              72
            ]
          ],
          "text": "It was deemed necessary to keep at least three battalions pre-positioned in case of a breakout.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having been pre-positioned."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "positioned"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "pre-positioned",
          "#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pre-positioned"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"pre-positioned" meaning in English

Adjective

Verb