Usually means: Introducing or leading with preliminary remarks.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. prefacing: Merriam-Webster
  2. prefacing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prefacing: Vocabulary.com
  4. Prefacing, prefacing: Wordnik
  5. prefacing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prefacing: Wiktionary
  7. Prefacing, prefacing: Dictionary.com
  8. prefacing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Prefacing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Prefacing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. prefacing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. prefacing: FreeDictionary.org
  13. prefacing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefacing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prefacing: Encyclopedia

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  1. prefacing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Preface)

noun:  A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author.
noun:  An introduction, or series of preliminary remarks.
noun:  (Christianity) A variable prayer forming the prelude or introduction to the Eucharistic Prayer or canon of the Mass, following the Sursum corda dialogue and leading into the Sanctus.
noun:  A title or epithet.
verb:  (transitive) To introduce or make a comment before (the main point); to premise.
verb:  (transitive) To give a preface to.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of preface (“prayer before the canon of the Mass”). [A beginning or introductory portion that comes before the main text of a document or book, typically serving to contextualize or explain the writing of the book and sometimes to acknowledge others' contributions; especially, such a discussion written by the work's own author.]
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