Pretrial

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pretrial
       adj : preceding an official trial; "pretrial publicity"; "pretrial
             hearings are usually for the purpose of clarifying
             facts and points of la"
       n : (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the
           parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to


           define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than
           in criminal cases [syn: {pretrial conference}]