| Subject | English | Croatian |
| comp., MS | preliminary data validation | preliminarna provjera valjanosti podataka (The process of validating data before it is processed. This validation helps detect and exclude some errors from the intended process, which might be the import or migration of users using a CSV file, for example) |
| fin. | preliminary draft administrative budget | prednacrt administrativnog proračuna |
| econ. | preliminary draft budget | prednacrt proračuna |
| polit. | preliminary draft budget estimates | prednacrt projekcije proračuna |
| econ. | preliminary draft EC budget | prednacrt proračuna EU-a |
| NGO | preliminary investigation | istražni postupak |
| econ. | preliminary issue | prethodno pitanje |
| environ. | preliminary proceedings | pripremni postupak |
| gen. | preliminary storage | skladištenje otpada |
| econ. | reference to the EC Court of Justice for a preliminary ruling | prijedlog Sudu EZ-a za rješavanje prethodnog pitanja |