Planned or organized before something happens, settled in advance by agreement or decision.
From 'pre-' (before) + 'arranged' (from Old French 'arranger,' meaning to put in order). The prefix became popular in English during the 1600s-1700s for describing things done beforehand.
Prearranged marriages were the norm for centuries—parents literally decided their children's spouses before the kids could even speak, which seems shocking now but was considered efficient and logical for creating political or economic alliances between families.
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