What's the difference between beforehand and prepay?
Beforehand
Definition:
(adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
(adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
(a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
(2) The striatal dopaminergic input was extensively destroyed beforehand to preclude the possibility of reinnervation of the striatum by endogenous dopaminergic neurons.
(3) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
(4) Beforehand, the claim that the symport of L-glutamate with Na+ is linked to simultaneous antiport with K+ has been confirmed by the demonstration that equilibrium exchange of L-glutamate is inhibited by potassium.
(5) In the aortic strips which had been treated with Ca antagonists beforehand, nicorandil at all concentrations tested produced a long lasting relaxation, and the rhythmic contraction did not appear during exposure to nicorandil.
(6) Administration of propranolol (a beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug) beforehand did not prevent lipid mobilization.
(7) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
(8) The two men walked through the grounds beforehand, and were to meet again on Wednesday.
(9) [The Sunday Mirror] ought to have the justification already in place ... One of the things about the code is that newspapers think beforehand,” he told a fringe meeting organised by the Media Standards Trust at the Tory party conference on Tuesday morning.
(10) Subodh Chandra, an attorney for Tamir’s mother Samaria, said they had been given no information about the announcement beforehand and had learned it was taking place through a public statement made by the county prosecutor’s office about an hour earlier.
(11) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
(12) In normotensive patients the filling pressure could often not be sufficiently lowered as a too severe reduction of arterial pressure occurred beforehand.
(13) The ability of spermatozoa to survive cryopreservation could not be predicted from the properties of the semen beforehand.
(14) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
(15) Procedures to be followed were carefully explained to all students beforehand.
(16) McKeown, the director of west coast operations, and Kirkham, said O’Reilly had in the moments beforehand irritated residents who were trying to put out fires and clear wreckage.
(17) was injected intravenously 20 minutes before operation in 4 patients but 24 hours beforehand in the remainder.
(18) He said beforehand that it would be "a weight off my shoulders, like going on holiday".
(19) A cone-shaped dilator is placed beforehand at the proximal end of the vertical limb of the T tube to facilitate the passage of that end through the stenotic subglottic space.
(20) May sound reassuring on the electoral doorstep but likely to be trashed beforehand by weary doctors and political opponents.
Prepay
Definition:
(v. t.) To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s a damp squib, a bit of a nothing result,” a leading energy analyst said of a report that is widely expected to endorse provisional findings released in March , and recommend price controls on prepayment meters and setting up a customer database to help rival suppliers target customers stuck on expensive default tariffs.
(2) The three prepayment plans appealed to different population groups.
(3) Thus prepayment in an organized setting did change hospital and ambulatory care utilization but did not reduce medical care costs.
(4) A group practice prepayment plan in Baltimore had consumers on its governing board and, in alliance with a powerful medical institution, successfully organized around political, economic, and social issues.
(5) Ofgem data showed that in 2014 around 130,000 electricity and 103,000 gas customers switched to credit meters – just 3% of all prepayment customers.
(6) A spokesman for Ofgem says: "The supplier is obligated to supply information on how a customer can obtain assistance if a prepayment meter is not operating effectively, including details of timescales for removal and resetting of the meter if that action is necessary."
(7) We studied the impact on use of services of only one factor-prepayment at the Marshfield Clinic, Wisconsin--with all other factors, including group practice, held constant.
(8) He added: “Tens of millions of pounds have been spent by the CMA and the companies themselves just to produce this low-key set of remedies.” Atherton is not convinced about the value of plans to cap prepayment meter bills and introduce an industry-wide customer database controlled by the industry regulator, Ofgem.
(9) Our research shows many prepay meter customers have to fork out hundreds of pounds more than those on online direct debit deals.
(10) The slow adoption of sealants into dental practice is attributed partly to the fact that few prepayment plans pay for sealants.
(11) The curative health services are decentralized and provide care through a variety of plans which combine capitation prepayment and modified fee-for service.
(12) He told MPs: "The initial phase of [a government] review has concluded and we will shortly start a consultation on a range of options, including plans to extend charging to some visitors and temporary residents who were previously exempt so that the default qualification for free NHS care would be permanent, not temporary, residence; ending free access to primary care for all visitors and tourists; introducing a prepayment or insurance requirement for temporary visitors to pay for NHS healthcare; and improving how the NHS can identify, charge and recover charges where they should apply.
(13) Employees joining or not joining three newly marketed prepayment plans were surveyed during the first marketing period and during another open enrollment period 18 months later.
(14) The CMA said it was considering remedies to fix the market, including removing barriers to switching, possible price controls and measures to prompt prepayment customers to switch by allowing other suppliers to contact them to offer better tariffs.
(15) In most respects, there were no adverse effects on the work relations of physicians, in the perceived quality of medical care, or in the institutional performance of physicians at the nine participating hospitals after the introduction of prepayment.
(16) Giving prepay meter customers a better deal is a crucial part of this.” Co-operative Energy said it was cutting its prepayment rates.
(17) Medicare will not be the only benefactor of this new scheme as prepayment spreads to other payors and providers of health care.
(18) In addition, although about one-half of persons with psychiatric disorders are believed to have their only contact with health care providers in the primary care sector, research findings suggest that depression often remains undetected and untreated in this secto; and there have been few data on how appropriateness of care for depression differs for patients in different health care delivery systems, or whose care is financed by prepayment or fee-for-service arrangements.
(19) Citizens Advice called for an extension of a recent price cap by the regulator Ofgem for 4m households on prepayment meters .
(20) A number of trends over the past decade predict that this transference to prepayment will continue in the future and will have a profound impact on the future practice of family medicine.