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We found 34 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word preliminary:
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General (29 matching dictionaries)

1. preliminary: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. preliminary, preliminary: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. preliminary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. preliminary: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. preliminary: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. preliminary, preliminary: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Preliminary, preliminary: Wordnik [home, info]
8. preliminary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. preliminary: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. preliminary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. preliminary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. preliminary: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. preliminary: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. preliminary: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. preliminary: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. preliminary: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Preliminary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Preliminary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. preliminary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. preliminary: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. preliminary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. preliminary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. preliminary: Free Dictionary [home, info]
24. preliminary: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. preliminary: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. preliminary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. preliminary: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

28. preliminary: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
29. PRELIMINARY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
30. preliminary: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

31. preliminary: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

32. preliminary: online medical dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See preliminarily for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (preliminary) ▸ noun:  something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows ("Training is a necessary preliminary to employment") ▸ noun:  a minor match preceding the main event ▸ adjective:  designed to orient or acquaint with a situation before proceeding ("A preliminary investigation") ▸ Also see preliminarily ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to preliminary ▸ Usage examples for preliminary ▸ Popular adjectives describing preliminary ▸ Popular nouns described by preliminary ▸ Words that often appear near preliminary ▸ Rhymes of preliminary ▸ Invented words related to preliminary