Meanings

reserved flight

preliminary election

preliminary experiment

budget control

preventive measure

preventive detention

forecast and actual results

double-booking

prognostication

to make an appointment

booking directly with a prostitute (instead of with the brothel)

sale by subscription

Taniyama-Shimura conjecture (former name of the modularity theorem)

online booking

appointment date

getting through a qualifying round

plans are but plans

standby power supply

precooling (of fresh produce)

preannounced murder