preengagement

n. 先约, 预先约定

词形变化

preengagements 复数 preengagements

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Prior engagement or obligation, for example by contract or promise.

    1650s-1660s', Robert Boyle, Some Specimens of an Attempt to make Chymical Experiments Useful to Illustrate the Notions of the Corpuscular Philosophy My pre-engagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write.

    unchangeable preengagement

词源

From pre- + engagement.

来源:wiktionary