Definitions

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  • adjective Prior to availability to the general public.
  • adjective business Before becoming a public company in which anybody can buy shares.

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ public

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Examples

  • Phillip Chen remembered how, panic-stricken, he had searched frantically for the further documentation, his mind shrieking that it was impossible for his son to have so much secret knowledge, impossible for him to have Struan's balance sheets of the prepublic days, impossible to know about Four Finger Wu and those secret things.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Phillip Chen remembered how, panic-stricken, he had searched frantically for the further documentation, his mind shrieking that it was impossible for his son to have so much secret knowledge, impossible for him to have Struan's balance sheets of the prepublic days, impossible to know about Four Finger Wu and those secret things.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

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