What is "prelim"

Usage examples of "prelim".

Isolating leaders meant infiltration, and to minimax the operation it would be best to let gunsels, for once, do the prelim work usually reserved for the FBI or other agencies.

He ran the prelim checks, and was pleased to see a very clean board, only a few ambers and one or two reds in a wall of green indicators.

I contacted him off-record and he says that he's seen enough of their ops to be able to do a prelim cert but he's not sure he could full cert them for airborne ops.

There were only two more big test-periods in the semester: a set of prelims and then final exams.

Skip flunked his Anthropology prelim, his Colonial History prelim, and the soash prelim.

I remember because the semester's initial round of prelims had just ended and I had survived.

For Skip and me and too many of our cardplaying buddies, our second round of prelims was a full-fledged disaster.

Who cares if we miss some of the prelims down at the White Silver Plain?

While they are prelims, I think you'll find that they encompass all the key elements that Mr.

That was the first time a ship had landed there, the prelims had warned against it, but Fox went down.

He had anticipated our scenario and had already done the prelims for what we wanted to know.