verb
- to type something in advance or before a particular time or event
Usage: informal; computing/office context
Examples
- She decided to pretype the email so it would be ready to send first thing in the morning.
- The secretary pretyped all the standard forms to save time during the busy season.
- I pretyped my speech notes before the presentation to avoid fumbling with the keyboard.
- He pretyped the meeting agenda and distributed it to all attendees the day before.