• (RP) IPA: /bɪˈfɔːhænd/
• (America) IPA: /bɪˈfɔɹhænd/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /bɪˈfo(ː)ɹhænd/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /bɪˈfoəhænd/

beforehand (not comparable)

1. At an earlier or preceding time.

   Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs?

• in advance
• upfront

• afterwards

• French: préalablement, auparavant, au préalable, à l'avance
• German: vorher, zuvor, davor, im Voraus
• Italian: anticipatamente
• Portuguese: em antemão
• Russian: зара́нее
• Spanish: de antemano, anticipadamente, adelantadamente, antes, con anterioridad

beforehand

1. (obsolete) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
   • 1626, Francis Bacon, New Atlantis

     rich and much beforehand

2. (archaic, often followed by with) In a state of anticipation or preoccupation.
   • 1670, John Milton, The History of Britain, […] , London: Printed by J.M. for James Alleſtry, […] , OCLC 78038412 ↗:

     Agricola […] resolves to be beforehand with the danger.

   • April 6 1716, Joseph Addison, The Freeloader No. 31

     The last cited author has been beforehand with me.

   • 1839, London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine

     […] the medical attendant ought to be rather beforehand with the symptoms of excitement, and to diminish the large quantity of wine before they appear.