predeclare

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English

Etymology

From pre- +‎ declare.

Verb

predeclare (third-person singular simple present predeclares, present participle predeclaring, simple past and past participle predeclared)

  1. (transitive) To declare or announce beforehand.
    • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
      their indefeasible power of predeclaring the eternal destiny of every living layman
  2. (transitive, programming) To declare some source code element (such as a class) in advance of its full description, so that other preceding parts of the code can refer to it.
    Synonym: forward-declare

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