Definition of "prescreen" []

• To view (a movie) before release for public showing. (verb-transitive)
• To examine or interview before further selection processes occur: prescreen applicants for interviews. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Does anyone "prescreen" people who are polled to determine if they even know enough to provide anything resembling an informed and intelligent opinion?"
• "A UPS was an unsanctioned prescreen, meaning the two Op-Center agents had a look around without the benefit of a search warrant."
• "WATCH a preview for Ennis' "The Arm," a short about love and texting, at prescreen.com."