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📅 Preparation period ⏳ Before launch 🚀 To release early
to prelaunch

to prelaunch

5.1
To make a product or service available to a small group before launch
  • verb
translation icon : prelanzar
  • The company decided to prelaunch its new software to select users for early feedback.

Examples

  • They will prelaunch the product next week before the official release in July.

  • By prelaunching the service, the team hopes to identify and fix any major issues.

  • They will prelaunch the new app next week.

  • The company prelaunched its latest product last month.

  • The company decided to prelaunch its new software to select users for early feedback.

  • They will prelaunch the product next week before the official release in July.

  • By prelaunching the service, the team hopes to identify and fix any major issues.

Synonyms

to presell
vsto prelaunch
1 4.8

To sell a product before it is available for delivery

is broader, covering promotion and limited early access rather than only selling
to prerelease
vsto prelaunch
4.9

To make something available to a small group before the official launch

is broader, also covering promotion and offering to a small audience
to premarket
vsto prelaunch
  • Jargon
6.8

To promote a product before its official release

emphasizes limited early availability and targeted access rather than broad advertising

How Public

to launch
504 3.7
to prelaunch
5.1
to trial
12 3.3
test
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

prelaunch infinitive
prelaunched past
prelaunched past participle
prelaunching present participle
prelaunches third person singular

Morphology

prelaunch = launch (transparent) = pre + launch

This is a regular pre- verb meaning 'to launch in advance'.

Etymology

Prelaunch comes from the parts pre- 'before' and launch 'to send off', as in launching a rocket or a product. To prelaunch something is to release or show it to a small group before the main launch.