preorder UK /pɹiːˈɔːdə/US /ˈpɹiˌoɹdɚ/noun 2verb 2adjective 1forms 3 noun2 •An order for goods or services placed in advance.Head over to website.com and get your preorder in. •A binary relation that is reflexive and transitive.The relation of logical implication over sentences is an example of a preorder. verb2 •To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.Preorder now at website.com! •To sort or arrange beforehand. adjective1 •Such that, recursively, the root is visited before the left and right subtrees.Now, the preorder traversal of a tree can be constructed from the preorder traversals of the subtrees rooted at the children of the root of the tree. — 2002 formspreordered · preordering · preorders