precondition
先决条件,前提条件,先決條件,前提
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Definitions
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- : something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
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- : to subject to a special treatment in preparation for a subsequent experience, process, test, etc.: to precondition a surface to receive paint.
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Examples
Good national social contracts are a precondition to good international cooperation, otherwise you cannot sustain political support.
They no longer feel the unfairness, the injustice, firsthand—and that has historically been a precondition to launching a claim.
Would-be LSA advertisers must submit to background and licensing checks to qualify for the Google Guarantee, a precondition for LSA participation.
Her release was a precondition to signing the EU Association Agreement.
But what I am saying is that for me, at least, feeling loved and wanted by somebody was a precondition to health.
He fell short of making this a precondition for talks, a requirement that had scuttled earlier attempts at negotiation.
This, gal pals across America might note, was a precondition before she agreed to pick up and move to Silicon Valley.
Willingness to refinance should have been a precondition of TARP aid back in 2008 and 2009.
The precondition of thought as of life is that nature be uniform, or ultimately that the world be rational.
Such trust is a precondition to the existence of a thriving, modern economy.
The value of the money is a precondition of the money-function.
The precondition of every true calling must be, not love for art, but love for mankind.
Even biologically, two individuals of the higher animal species are the precondition to a new individual existence.