in advance

Questions about in advance

What does in advance mean?

in advance means "situated ahead or going before". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for in advance?

Close synonyms include advance, advanced, ahead, beforehand. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is in advance a common word?

in advance is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.