Definition of prepare verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

The meaning of PREPARE is to make ready beforehand for some purpose, use, or activity. How to use prepare in a sentence.

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To prepare means to get ready for something. When you prepare for a test, you'll get a better score than if you don’t.

  • to make ready or suitable in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc: to prepare a meal; to prepare to go. 4. (Music, other) (tr) music to soften the impact of (a dissonant note) by the …
    1. If you prepare something, you make it ready for something that is going to happen. Two technicians were preparing a recording of last week's program. On average each report requires 1,000 hours to …

      Idiom be prepared to do something (Definition of prepare from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

      PREPARE meaning: 1 : to make (someone or something) ready for some activity, purpose, use, etc.; 2 : to make yourself ready for something that you will be doing, something that you expect to happen, …

      Prepare, contrive, devise imply planning for and making ready for something expected or thought possible. To prepare is to make ready beforehand for some approaching event, need, and the like: to …

      Idiom be prepared to do something (Definition of prepare from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

      PREPARE meaning: 1 : to make (someone or something) ready for some activity, purpose, use, etc.; 2 : to make yourself ready for something that you will be doing, something that you expect to happen, …

      Prepare, contrive, devise imply planning for and making ready for something expected or thought possible. To prepare is to make ready beforehand for some approaching event, need, and the like: to …

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