advance orders
Purchases before release
Advance orders are requests to purchase something before it becomes available.
Publishers take advance orders for books not yet released; retailers accept them for products in development.
The term appears in both retail and military contexts—troops may receive advance orders instructing them to prepare for deployment.
We placed advance orders for the new gaming console months before launch.
- preorderBuy before availability
- first dibsPriority claim privilege
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
- backorderDeferred fulfillment request
- waitlistRoster of pending hopefuls
early bird · deposit · presale · booking · hold · queue · anticipation · launch · coming soon · release · day one · ship date · shipment · inventory · allocation · sold out · limited edition · wholesale
advance ordersimpulse buys
Unplanned spur-of-moment acquisitions
impulse purchases · rush orders · backorders · panic buying · reorders
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