The licence will expire after a predetermined number of years. The horse was sold for a predetermined price. Getting enough calcium and physical activity helps bones achieve their genetically …

The meaning of PREDETERMINE is foreordain, predestine. How to use predetermine in a sentence.

Anything predetermined has been decided or set up ahead of time. When you sit down to dinner with your family at a predetermined time, it means you all discussed when you'd be eating long before the …

Definition of predetermined adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you say that something is predetermined, you mean that its form or nature was decided by previous events or by people rather than by chance. The Prince's destiny was predetermined from the …

pre·de·ter·mined , pre·de·ter·min·ing , pre·de·ter·mines v. tr. 1. To determine, decide, or establish in advance: "These factors predetermine to a large...

Dec 5, 2025 · From pre- +‎ determined. [1] Determined in advance. ^ “ predetermined, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

predetermined, adj. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary

predetermined Predetermined refers to something that has been established or decided in advance, prior to an event or before any knowledge of the actual circumstances. It usually involves a …

to settle or decide in advance: He had predetermined his answer to the offer. to ordain in advance; predestine: She believed that God had predetermined her sorrow.