preform

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Once we take into account quality, then it is possible that private hospitals may out-preform public hospitals with respect to efficiency.

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  1. transitive verb To shape or form beforehand.
  2. transitive verb To determine the shape or form of beforehand.
  3. noun An object that has been subjected to preliminary, usually incomplete shaping or molding before undergoing complete or final processing.
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  • Once we take into account quality, then it is possible that private hospitals may out-preform public hospitals with respect to efficiency. —  Healthcare Economist
  • The manufacturing breakthrough that made this possible is a system of drawing out a foot-long "preform" with millimeter-thick layers, into hundreds of meters of fiber with micron-thick layers. —  Medgadget
  • Regardless of who is in the bullpen this year, they are going to preform or get replaced by someone else who can. —  Major League Baseball
  • Instantly from the issing I got an erection, to the point where Hard and able to preform intercourse, though it didn't last long. —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
  • However, I don't feel that the singers in our Centre have the talent to preform it properly, to do either my words or Hannah's music justice. —  I Was Born2Cree8
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  1. = French préformer = Italian preformarc, from Latin præformare, form beforehand, prepare, from præ, before, + formare, shape, fashion: see form.
 

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