beforehand
adverb, adjective
Origin of beforehand
Related Words for beforehand
earlier, sooner, ahead, advanced, already, ante, before, fore, precocious, previous, previously, antecedentlyExamples from the Web for beforehand
Contemporary Examples of beforehand
In a series of meetings over the past year, Israel laid out to the U.S. beforehand what would trigger a strike in Syria.
Cheap gas has also rendered government-preferred energy sources like solar even more uneconomic than they were beforehand.
Gilligan: That was an idea that we had many months beforehand.
‘Breaking Bad’: Bryan Cranston, Vince Gilligan, Emmy NominationsMaria Elena Fernandez
September 17, 2012
And up until two hours beforehand, he was in the hospital with a kidney stone.
Though his performance went off without a hitch, Rogan was characteristically self-deprecating about it beforehand.
Historical Examples of beforehand
But beforehand, I can tell you what he and what his sisters will say, when they are sounded.
Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
You don't give me time, and you are so eager that it is difficult to be beforehand with you on the subject.
The Imaginary InvalidMolire
The remoulade sauce will be much better if made some hours beforehand.
The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste:Mrs. W. G. Waters
The beds chosen for them are those that have been planted with Tulips the autumn beforehand.
The Mayflower, January, 1905Various
I told you beforehand that you would be swayed by the Coadjutor.
The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, CompleteJean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz