tournament
noun
a trial of skill in some game, in which competitors play a series of contests.
pretournament
-
a word derived from
tournament.
Example Sentences
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But its final pretournament tuneup, with Chile this month, was canceled in Spain because of health concerns linked to the Ebola outbreak in Congo, then relocated to France, where Les Leopards lost 2-1.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
They did not, however, travel to the pretournament training in Havana, where the team met with Díaz-Canel.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023
One of the pretournament favorites was another USC Trojan, rising sophomore star Amari Avery, who recently helped the U.S. win the Curtis Cup and is ranked No. 11 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2022
Nov. 15 is likely the first day Berhalter will have his entire roster available ahead of the opener, and he probably will scrap plans for a pretournament training camp in Dubai.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
But in the men’s competition, the Russian squad — formally competing as the Russian Olympic Committee as a penalty for the country’s history of doping — was a pretournament favorite, if an imperfect one.
From New York Times ● Feb. 19, 2022
