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

to prewire

7.8
Get someone ready to respond in a certain way
  • verb
  • /ˈpriːˌwaɪər/
translation icon : 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 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
to preprogram
vsto prewire
7.2

To make people think or act a certain way beforehand

prepares more generally rather than directly shaping thoughts or actions

How Conditioned

to brainwash
118 7.3
to prewire
7.8
to prime
56 5.2
to nudge
24 4.1
to hint
136 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.