predeparture

English

From pre- +‎ departure.

predeparture (not comparable)

Occurring before or in preparation for one's departure.
- 2007 November 22, Jason Deparle, “Western Union Empire Moves Migrant Cash Home”, in New York Times‎^[1]:
  The Philippines requires each outbound migrant to attend a predeparture seminar.

predeparture (plural predepartures)

(rare) The time or preparations leading up to one's departure.
- 2013, Steven R. Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training:
  Once conditioned, the odor can be used during graduated departures and predepartures as an OSS.
- 2022, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Health and Health Care Inequities, Infectious Diseases and Social Factors, page 93:
  […] the inherent difficulties of migratory processes, including traumatizing predepartures and journeys, the challenges of transculturation and family reorganization, and the coming to terms with new living conditions […]