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  • adjective Before a legal hearing.

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pre- +‎ hearing

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Examples

  • Connie and Barbara went off to a prehearing conference in another room.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Connie and Barbara went off to a prehearing conference in another room.

    Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010

  • Just a week before Christmas, Joe was taken to Boston to testify in a prehearing.

    The Mob and Me John Partington 2010

  • The day before, both sides had submitted a prehearing brief to the arbitrator and to each other, stating their positions.

    T.O. Terrell Owens 2006

  • The day before, both sides had submitted a prehearing brief to the arbitrator and to each other, stating their positions.

    T.O. Terrell Owens 2006

  • A military commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba begins the prehearing for suspects designated U.S. enemy combatants.

    CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2004 2004

  • I expect her prehearing deposition will be next week.

    Water Witches Chris Bohjalian 1995

  • In February of this year, the United States participated in a daylong prehearing conference in several other cases involving military equipment.

    Iranian Assets Clinton, Bill, 1946- 1993

  • The black students, who claimed that their due process and been impaired by the prehearing suspensions, then demanded that the four suspended black students also be reinstated.

    Trouble at San Francisco State: An Exchange Windmiller, Marshall 1968

  • Claimants requested reconsideration of the Panel's Order denying their request for prehearing conferences.

    Forbes.com: News Bill Singer 2011

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