The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preelection \Pre`["e]*lec"tion\, n. Election beforehand.
Usage examples of "preelection".
Democratic and Republican votes should be won by conversion of individuals to the cause rather than by hybrid amalgamation of parties and preelection agreements for dividing the spoils.
Just before the 1957 election the American request for the NORAD agreement had been removed from the agenda of the Cabinet Defence Committee, because both Louis St Laurent and Lester Pearson felt it was too grave a matter to be considered hastily in a preelection atmosphere.
But it meant that a great deal of preelection activity centerd in and around Polnorth House as well as the Conservative offices in St.
The only way to hold an honest election is to have an agreed-on procedure in advance and follow preelection rules, whether or not one side later objects, and even if hindsight can invent a better system.
General Election coming early next year, and these are preelection leaflets, spelling out the dangers of the Conservatives getting back in if we take victory for granted.
She was too grateful for a chance at having Simon's childand too distracted by preelection newsto dwell on the urban population explosion underway.