"prelocate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From pre- + locate.",
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      "form": "prelocates",
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    {
      "form": "prelocating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "prelocated",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "prelocated",
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1967, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Annual Report, page 82:",
          "text": "Manufactured strain gage rosettes are now being used to prelocate the gages with respect to the proposed hole center.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Donald L. Brakensiek, Field manual for research in agricultural hydrology, page 297:",
          "text": "Where sections are more than about 500 feet (152.5 m) apart, prelocate all cross sections on aerial photographs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Deanna Petherbridge, Art for architecture: a handbook on commissioning, page 39:",
          "text": "In addition, the green ventilation ducts which emerge at two points in the wall had to be cut into the mosaic, as it had not been possible to prelocate them.",
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        "To locate in advance."
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        "(transitive) To locate in advance."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prelocate"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From pre- + locate.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prelocates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "prelocating",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
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      "form": "prelocated",
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        "participle",
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    },
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      "form": "prelocated",
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        "past"
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        {
          "ref": "1967, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.), Annual Report, page 82:",
          "text": "Manufactured strain gage rosettes are now being used to prelocate the gages with respect to the proposed hole center.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Donald L. Brakensiek, Field manual for research in agricultural hydrology, page 297:",
          "text": "Where sections are more than about 500 feet (152.5 m) apart, prelocate all cross sections on aerial photographs.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987, Deanna Petherbridge, Art for architecture: a handbook on commissioning, page 39:",
          "text": "In addition, the green ventilation ducts which emerge at two points in the wall had to be cut into the mosaic, as it had not been possible to prelocate them.",
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        "To locate in advance."
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        "(transitive) To locate in advance."
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