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prepublication

1903, from pre- + publication.

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prepublication

a. Preceding, or in preparation for, publication

Usage examples of "prepublication".

Oh, notables like Steve Allen and Charles Beaumont and Leslie Charteris praised the hell out of it, but those were in prepublication comments that were used on the splash page of the book itself.

A Novel had received numerous prepublication endorsements, and initial orders were at an all-time high for a first novel.

Unfortunately, Knightsbridge went out of business - but not without first boosting my expectations through the exhilarating prepublication process.

CHECKER Operation of inspection and quality control systems for the prepublication editing, proofreading, and checking of cryptographic materials.

Relating to the Administration of Polygraph Examinations and Prepublication Review Requirements by Federal Agencies, 98th Cong.

House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, Hearings, 98th Cong.

Relating to the Administration of Polygraph Examinations and Prepublication Review Requirements by Federal Agencies, 98th Cong.

House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Presidential Directive on the Use of Polygraphs and Prepublication Review, 89th Cong.

Marsh asked both men to agree to an arrangement whereby each would furnish the others and leading scientific institutions with prepublication notices of their discoveries.

Marsh had not received from Cope the prepublication notices that they had agreed upon, and he became suspicious about notices of discoveries that Cope had telegraphed back to Philadelphia in August and September 1872.

After my second book, Slander, was killed by the publisher, I went months and months without a possibility of publication, even as prepublication orders were pouring in.

Near the end of 1946, the Japanese-language page proofs of an interesting pocket-size dictionary were submitted to censors in the occupation bureaucracy for prepublication approval.

All but twenty-eight magazines were placed on postpublication surveillance status by December 1947, with the exceptions remaining subject to prepublication approval until October 1949.

All major newspapers and news services were removed from prepublication scrutiny by the end of July 1948.

More subtle and pernicious, in the print media in particular, the shift from prepublication to postpublication censorship had a chilling rather than a liberating effect on many publishers, editors, and writers, for it made them more vulnerable to financial disaster should occupation authorities find their published product unacceptable and demand that a newspaper, magazine, or book be recalled.