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  • verb Present participle of pre-arrange.

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Examples

  • Take a taxi to the hotel – Beth Rosen was kindly pre-arranging a taxi and might even meet me (which she did!).

    Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2010 » February 2010

  • EST as my flash mob hour, based on the phenomenon of a bunch of strangers pre-arranging to randomly meet at a given time and place.

    Archive 2010-05-11 Joe Konrath 2010

  • Well, it's a very minimal amount, but unless you talked to someone in the Starbucks Family about pre-arranging this ...

    Boing Boing: March 10, 2002 - March 16, 2002 Archives 2002

  • The peculiar ability they show in pre-arranging ceremonials and fêtes of all kinds and their undoubted genius for tactics and strategy show that they are able to foresee effects with unusual clearness.

    The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906

  • The powers are there, else we should be helpless; but life and mind are outside those powers, and, by pre-arranging their field of action, can direct them along an organised course.

    Life and Matter A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's 'Riddle of the Universe' Oliver Lodge 1895

  • Mr. Lincoln's answer precluding negotiations by pre-arranging conditions.

    Foreign and Colonial Intelligence 1864

  • Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.

    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1833

  • The trio denied spot-fixing, the offence of pre-arranging individual events within a match which may not affect the result.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The trio denied spot-fixing, the offence of pre-arranging individual events within a match which may not affect the result.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • The trio denied spot-fixing, the offence of pre-arranging individual events within a match which may not affect the result.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

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