In advance means before the time something happens. Paid, booked or warned ahead of the event.
It is one of the standard phrases of any transaction, since paying in advance, booking in advance and giving notice in advance all shift something earlier than it needed to be. It takes of when the event is named. There is a strong note of prudence in it, and the advice to book in advance is what every guidebook says. Beforehand does the same job in one word.
1phrasein advanceBefore the event or time concerned.
“Tickets are cheaper if you buy them in advance.”
Practised in Time & Calendar, A Man Called Ove
First appears in chapter 5 of A Man Called Ove.
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