📅 Preparation period ⏳ Before launch 🚀 To release early

to prelaunch

5.1

To make a product or service available to a small group before launch

verb

: 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.