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Lay the groundwork
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prepare
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) preparation vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble. 2 (context transitive English) To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook. 3 (context intransitive English) ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a prepared statement (= one that is prepared and then read out ) ▪ His solicitor read a prepared statement on his behalf. be willing/prepared/happy/ready to admit sth ▪ She was willing to admit that she’d made a mistake. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prepare \Pre*pare"\, n. Preparation. [Obs.] --Shak.
Usage examples of prepare.
Then supper was prepared sumptuously, and the new companion said unto the other, You ought to accompt me not onely your Captaine in robbery and fight, but also in pleasures and jolity, whereupon by and by with pleasant cheere he prepared meat, and trimming up the house he set all things in order, and brought the pottage and dainty dishes to the Table: but above all he plyed them wel with great pots and jugs of wine.
Should the Duke and Duchess have other intentions, but be ready to collaborate in the establishment of a good relationship between Germany and England, Germany is likewise prepared to co-operate with the Duke and to arrange the future of the Ducal couple in accordance with their wishes.
Necker, as usual, was better prepared to deal with the impossible accoustics in the 120-foot-long Salle des Menus Plaisirs.
In the end I prepared a book of charades and double acrostics, for the printing and binding of which Mrs.
After Seti came to the throne he continued Hotep in the advisership and prepared to reign happily.
What a wealth of relations, hints, and intuitions seemed to disclose itself, as soon as the Old Testament was considered allegorically, and to what extent had the way been prepared here by the Jewish philosophic teachers!
The first of the tactical bombardments by Allied heavy bombers, which henceforward were a marked feature, prepared the way.
As for the bishop, he was so upset that he let the typescript of his carefully prepared allocution flutter to the floor below, with the result that he was promptly reduced to a peroration in terms of embarrassed improvisation.
All-Soul, but dwelling within it and assuming body therein, while the others received their allotted spheres when the body was already in existence, when their sister soul was already in rule and, as it were, had already prepared habitations for them.
Prepare the eel according to directions previously given, cook in equal parts of white wine and water, seasoning with mace, pepper, nutmeg, cloves, sweet herbs, allspice, and salt.
Alice and Ambry, as it gave them opportunity to prepare for her party.
Garcia prepared a syringe of ampicillin and prayed to God for the souls of the monsters that could do this to another man.
In order to avoid chill and exposure, he was operated on in his old clothes, and while one limb was being amputated the other was being prepared.
I came prepared to annul this farce and send the chit back to Mull with a clear message for that Scottish ingrate who dares force his wishes over mine.
Monday As I prepared to host the bioterrorism roundtable in Nashville, a Florida man already had died of inhalational anthrax, and an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had been diagnosed with skin, or cutaneous, anthrax.