preinvention

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Before the invention of something; applied to legal agreements in which an employee agrees to assign to his/her employer the rights to any invention he/she later creates while employed.

Word forms

preinvention

Etymology

From pre- + invention.

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