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🧠 To prepare in advance 🔌 To install wiring early
to prewire

to prewire

1 7.8
Get someone ready to respond in a certain way
  • verb
  • /ˈpriːˌwaɪər/
: preparar
  • Parents often try to prewire their children to respond politely in social situations.

Examples

  • The training program prewires employees to handle customer complaints effectively.

  • They will prewire the team for the upcoming changes.

  • The coach prewired the players to stay calm under pressure during the finals.

  • Don't prewire the team too early!

  • The coach prewired the players to stay calm under pressure during the finals.

  • Parents often try to prewire their children to respond politely in social situations.

  • The training program prewires employees to handle customer complaints effectively.

Synonyms

to preprogram
vsto prewire
1 7.2

To make people think or act a certain way beforehand

prepares more generally rather than directly shaping thoughts or actions
to precondition
vsto prewire
1 6.0

To make something ready in advance so it meets requirements

prepares people or things to react in a specific way

How Conditioned

to brainwash
74 7.3
to prewire
1 7.8
to prime
25 5.2
to nudge
30 4.1
to hint
119 2.0

Surface Forms

prewire infinitive
prewired past
prewired past participle
prewiring present participle
prewires third person singular

Morphology

prewire = wire (semi-transparent) = pre + wire

The meaning is a metaphorical extension ('to condition or prepare in advance') from the physical 'wire', so it is understandable but relies on figurative usage.

Etymology

A helpful way to remember the second meaning of prewire is to think of 'wiring' a machine ahead of time: pre- 'before' plus wire 'to connect' gives the image of setting someone or something up in advance so they will react or behave in a certain way.