"prereq" meaning in English

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "prerequisite"
      },
      "expansion": "Clipping of prerequisite",
      "name": "clipping"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of prerequisite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prereqs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Emily Sugiyama, Katie Shaw, University of Washington 2012:",
          "text": "When you are planning on going into Nursing at University of Washington, you are really praying that you get into the Nursing school because the prereqs are so strictly and rigidly set up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Constance Courtney Staley, Steve Staley, FOCUS on College and Career Success, page 12:",
          "text": "And in some cases, students who haven't taken a prereq are actually disenrolled from the course that requires it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prerequisite."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "prerequisite",
          "prerequisite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A prerequisite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹi.ɹɛk/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "prereq"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prerequisite"
      },
      "expansion": "Clipping of prerequisite",
      "name": "clipping"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Clipping of prerequisite.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "prereqs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "prereq (plural prereqs)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English clippings",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
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        "English words containing Q not followed by U",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2011, Emily Sugiyama, Katie Shaw, University of Washington 2012:",
          "text": "When you are planning on going into Nursing at University of Washington, you are really praying that you get into the Nursing school because the prereqs are so strictly and rigidly set up.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Constance Courtney Staley, Steve Staley, FOCUS on College and Career Success, page 12:",
          "text": "And in some cases, students who haven't taken a prereq are actually disenrolled from the course that requires it.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A prerequisite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prerequisite",
          "prerequisite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) A prerequisite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/ˈpɹi.ɹɛk/",
      "tags": [
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  "word": "prereq"
}