pre-position

Verb

 * 1)  To position (something) ahead of time.

Usage notes

 * Some stylesheets hold the hyphen to be mandatory in this term to avoid preventable homography with preposition. In this regard compare other similar pairs such as re-create/recreate, re-treat/retreat, and un-ionized/unionized.
 * Even when this advice is strictly adhered to, such hyphens are forgone where they are unnecessary for clarity (for example, in pretreat and pretreatment).