prearranged

adjective

pre·​ar·​ranged ˌprē-ə-ˈrānjd How to pronounce prearranged (audio)
variants or pre-arranged
: having been arranged in advance
a prearranged meeting point

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If the Heat misses the playoffs and keeps its pick this year, the Heat theoretically could select a player with the intent of trading that player in a prearranged trade, giving Miami essentially four tradable picks for a few hours. Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 6 Feb. 2025 By late Saturday night, some 48 hours after the debate, the whole family was at Camp David — not for some emergency council, but for a prearranged gathering in the days before Independence Day. Matt Viser, Washington Post, 20 July 2024 Mateo also wants his drivers to have the ability to turn down a prearranged ride if the passengers are purposely obscuring their faces with hoods and surgical masks. Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 22 June 2024 And most of those sales were part of a prearranged schedule, so there could be little question as to whether they were based on insider information. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 4 June 2024 Prosecutors alleged that on the day of the killing, Sullivan went to Campbell’s home in the 8500 block of Bauer Drive for a prearranged meeting after the two had a dispute. Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024 The painting, protected by a pillow and bubble wrap stuffed into an Ikea bag, was dropped off by a publicly unidentified tipster at a prearranged meeting Monday evening, the BBC said. Robert Higgs, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023 While all of the other defendants, including former President Donald Trump, turned themselves in to the jail with a prearranged bond, Floyd, the former leader of the group Black Voices for Trump, showed up Thursday without an attorney and was arrested and booked like any other criminal defendant. Chris Joyner, ajc, 29 Aug. 2023 Read full article Williams met the undercover agent on Jan. 12 and sold the first device with several rounds of ammunition at a prearranged location, prosecutors said. Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Aug. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1830, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of prearranged was in 1830

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“Prearranged.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prearranged. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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