Definition of "precharge" [precharge]

• Before a charge (adjective)

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• "CPS are a bloody disgrace and now they are rowing back on the debacle of precharge advice."
• "Pretax, precharge profit—a figure closely watched by U.K. analysts—was £2.2 billion, driven by improvements in the bank's wholesale and retail-banking divisions."
• "The U.K. already has the longest period of precharge detention -- at 28 days -- in the Western world, dwarfing the two days allowed in the U.S., six in France, and five in Russia."