(v. t.) To order to arrange beforehand; to foreordain.
Example Sentences:
(1) PwC has advised those who paid for the preorder with a credit card to contact their card issuer, which can be liable to make a refund under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act.
(2) Initially PwC had said customers who had preordered the phones would be entitled to cancel their order and receive a full refund.
(3) For the Apple customers who had preordered their new iPhones through Phones 4u before the administrators were called in, the news that they are just casualties of the broader phone market won't be much compensation.
(4) The company has just completed preorders and will now sell Laserlights through Evans Cycles shops in the UK as well as through its own website.
(5) Before the launch, China Unicom had had 300,000 preorders for the device, compared with the 200,000 it had for the iPhone 4S in January.
(6) The media lapped it up, as did consumers, who preordered Tesla’s home battery solution, Powerwall, in droves.
(7) Laserlights were shipped to preorders in January this year.
(8) Customers who preordered Apple’s iPhone 6 through Phones 4u before it collapsed have been told they will not receive a refund.
(9) What these people are waiting for is the launch of the epic online sci-fi adventure Destiny , the biggest, most costly to make video game, the most preordered piece of entertainment software in history.
(10) Therefore customers who have preordered an iPhone 6 through Phones 4U will not receive their purchase,” it said.
(11) In fact, there's a game store here having a midnight launch for PS4 but not Xbox One due to low preorders.
(12) "I will be cancelling my preorder, I will not make games with the Rift, and I am not associating myself with a Facebook affiliated company."
(13) The retailer had allowed people to preorder the devices on its site until it was forced to close after mobile phone networks withdrew their businessfrom the company.
(14) An updated version of WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War On Secrecy can be preordered for £5.99 (RRP £7.99) at guardianbookshop.co.uk .
(15) Neither a specific preordering of axons in the retinotectal pathway nor activity-dependent axon-target interactions are required for appropriate axonal targeting.