premarket
市販前
解説 Definition
医薬品が正式に市場に投入される前の段階。市販前の承認段階。
Premarket means happening before a product is officially sold or made available to the public. It is often used in business, medicine, and law for testing, approval, or planning before release. In some contexts, especially finance, it can also mean before regular market trading begins.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
pre- は preview, prepaid, prewar などで見慣れた「前」、market はそのまま「市場」。合わせて「市場に出る前」と素直に分解すると忘れにくい。特に医薬・医療機器では premarket approval, premarket testing の形で頻出し、販売前に安全性や有効性を確認する段階を指す。postmarket が「市販後」なので前後セットで覚えると定着しやすい。単なる未発売というより、発売前の審査・承認という規制文脈で使われやすい語。
`Pre-` means before, and `market` keeps its usual meaning, so `premarket` is literally before reaching the market. It often appears in formal phrases like `premarket approval` or `premarket testing`. Learn it together with `postmarket`, because the contrast makes both words easier to remember.
例文
The drug is currently in premarket testing phases.
その医薬品は現在市販前の試験段階にある。
FDA premarket approval is required before commercial distribution.
商業販売の前にFDAの市販前承認が必要である。
Premarket review confirmed that the medical device met safety standards.
市販前審査により、その医療機器が安全基準を満たしていることが確認された。
premarket の類義語・関連語
premarket の語源・成り立ち Etymology
premarket は、ラテン語 prae 由来の pre-「前」+ ラテン語 merx「商品」から来た market に分けられます。原義は「市場の前」で、まだ売買や発売の場に出る前段階だと分かる語です。merchant や commerce も同じ merx 系です。
Premarket is made from pre-, meaning "before," and market. Market ultimately goes back to Latin merx, meaning "goods" or "merchandise," which also appears in merchant and commerce. The word first meant the stage before the market or sale begins, and from that it developed its modern business sense.
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