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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts.
  2. adj. Of or relating to a pretrial.
  3. adj. Existing or occurring before a trial: pretrial imprisonment; pretrial hearings.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Pertaining to a preliminary trial.
  2. n. law A preliminary trial held in advance of a court trial.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases

Etymologies

  1. pre- +‎ trial (Wiktionary)

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