Weak precompactness in Banach lattices

We show that the solid hull of every weakly precompact set of a Banach lattice $E$ is weakly precompact if and only if every order interval in $E$ is weakly precompact, or equivalently, if and only if every disjoint weakly compact set is weakly precompact. Some results on the domination property for weakly precompact positive operators are obtained. Among other things, we show that, for a pair of Banach lattices $E$ and $F$ with $E$ $\sigma$-Dedekind complete, every positive operator from $E$ to $F$ dominated by a weakly precompact operator is weakly precompact if and only if either the norm of $E^{\prime}$ is order continuous or else every order interval in $F$ is weakly precompact.