Hypertext Webster Gateway: "prelim"
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
prelim
n 1: a minor match preceding the main event [syn: {preliminary}]
2: an examination taken by graduate students to determine their
fitness to continue [syn: {preliminary examination}, {preliminary
exam}]
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