Verb
he claimed to have previsioned the crash of the stock market
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Noun
Evaluations include frontal crash tests, side crash tests, headlight evaluations, and crash prevision tests.—Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024 The original version of the bill would have imposed additional restrictions on eligibility for absentee voting but those previsions were removed.—Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2023 Another controversial prevision among those on Capitol Hill is a phone records program that grants the government the ability to request metadata such as the dates and senders of cellular communications — but not the content of those messages.—Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 3 Mar. 2020 The discovery confirmed a century-old prediction made by Albert Einstein, the last major prevision of his theory of general relativity that had remained unverified.—Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2017
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English previsioun, from Middle French prevision, from Late Latin praevision-, praevisio, from Latin praevidēre to foresee, from prae- + vidēre to see — more at wit
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