Definition of "preselecting" []

• Present participle of preselect. (verb)

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• "And in a world where we have caller I.D., and in a world where we have cell phones, which are pretty much screening things, screening out calls to begin with, it makes you wonder, Aren't we kind of preselecting the people who are participating in these because we don't want them to be -- we want it to be a very accurate assessment of the typical American."
• "USAID has even developed a system for "preselecting" certain private contractors, then inviting only those preselected companies to apply for contracts the agency wants to issue."
• "Talented "modernist" architects do not begin design by preselecting a style, whether traditional or modern in origin."