prepopulate

English

Etymology

pre- +‎ populate

Verb

prepopulate (third-person singular simple present prepopulates, present participle prepopulating, simple past and past participle prepopulated)

  1. (transitive, computing) To populate (form fields, a database, etc.) in advance.
    • 2009, Cody Lindley, JQuery Cookbook
      However, in addition to disabling the billing fields, we are also prepopulating them with data from the shipping fields.
  • prepopulation
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