A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated)

plural of preta

A very dark, man-made, nutritionally dense soil found in the Amazon basin.

Before the payment of taxes.

simple past tense and past participle of pretape

present participle of pretape

To tape in advance.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pretape

Before taxation.

targeting prior to some other procedure