preposition
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Synonyms: proposition, reposition, pre-position, pre position, premonition, deposition, prepositive, predeposition, seposition, prepositor, prepositions
Antonyms: proposition, reposition, pre-position, pre position, premonition, deposition, prepositive, predeposition, seposition, prepositor, prepositions
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Noun
- Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
- An adposition.
- A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.
Verb
- Alternative spelling of pre-position.
- It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.
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