pre-prepare

present singular third person pre-prepares · participle present pre-preparing · participle past pre-prepared · past pre-prepared

1. alternativeAlternative form of preprepare.

   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

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   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

   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