Meaning & use
pre-close
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Meanings
adjectivebefore a nounbusinessfinance
Happening or done just before a deal, sale, or accounting period is officially closed.
Grammar: Comes before a noun: a pre-close meeting, pre-close checks.
Patterns
- pre-close meeting
- pre-close briefing
- pre-close trading update
The finance team held a pre-close meeting to review the quarter's numbers.
Investors received a pre-close trading update before the results were published.
She sent a pre-close checklist to everyone involved in the sale.
verbtransitivebusinessfinance
To close something, such as a deal or account, before the official closing time or date.
Grammar: Takes an object: pre-close the account.
Patterns
- pre-close something
- pre-close a deal
- pre-close an account
We can pre-close the deal on Friday if all the paperwork is ready.
The bank agreed to pre-close the account before the end of the month.
Common combinations
- pre-close meeting
- The pre-close meeting lasted two hours.
- pre-close trading update
- The company issued a pre-close trading update to the stock exchange.
- pre-close briefing
- Analysts attended a pre-close briefing with the management team.
- pre-close checklist
- Use the pre-close checklist to make sure nothing is missed.
Synonyms and how they differ
- pre-closing
- More common and often used in the same business contexts; pre-close is a shorter, less formal variant.
Word family
Commonly confused: pre-close or pre-closing?
pre-close vs pre-closing
Both mean 'before closing', but pre-closing is more frequent and can also be a noun.
Practice
The company released a ______ trading update before the official results.
Choose one answer.
'Pre-close' fits before a noun to mean 'before the closing of the period'. 'Closing' alone would mean the update itself is closing something, which is not the intended meaning.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “pre-close”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.