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1. Make (something) ready for use or consideration.
The research team is currently preparing manuscripts for consideration.
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2. Make (food or a meal) ready for cooking or eating.
Natalia and Kevin busied themselves preparing the mid-day meal.
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3. Make (a substance) by a chemical reaction or series of reactions.
His ink was prepared from the soot of lamp black mixed with water.
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4. Make (someone) ready or able to do or deal with something.
I was not prepared for it and I couldn't really deal with it.
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5. (be prepared to do something) Be willing to do something.
The bidder was to name the fee that they were prepared to pay for the licence.
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6. (in conventional harmony) lead up to (a discord) by means of preparation.
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1. Late Middle English from French préparer or Latin praeparare, from prae ‘before’ + parare ‘make ready’.
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