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pre-prepare en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of preprepare.
    alt of preprepare
    • For example, when a few frozen vegetables are used in a food service department, a worker might still be needed to pre-prepare the remainder of the vegetables and by working at a slightly slower preparation speed it might take this worker the same length of time to pre-prepare the vegetables. 1961, Nancy Ellen Correll, A Status Survey of the Use of Pre-prepared Foods and a Study of the Effect of the Use of Various Proportions of These Foods on Food and Labor Costs:
    • I ask all the students to pre-prepare four or five points that will illustrate their argument individually. 2004, Kate Exley, Reg Dennick, Small Group Teaching: Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond, page 72:
    • some stone[s] were pre-prepared, and also the wood-work of a coffer dam, but, as before stated, work on the shoal was not commenced. 1850, Millard Fillmore, Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pre-prepares Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pre-prepared Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pre-prepared Tense=Past lexicographic
pre-preparing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic