







in advance
beforehand
preemptively
ahead of time
previously
Please give us prior notice if you need an evening meal.
I wish we'd known about it beforehand.

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Open the tool →预先 (yù xiān) means “in advance, beforehand, preemptively, ahead of time”.
预先 is pronounced yù xiān in Mandarin Chinese.
“in advance” is 预先 (yù xiān) in Chinese.
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