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Answer for the clue "Prepare a long time for such a holiday? ", 7 letters:
package

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A package in the Unified Modeling Language is used "to group elements, and to provide a namespace for the grouped elements". A package may contain other packages, thus providing for a hierarchical organization of packages. Pretty much all UML elements can ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Something which is packed, a parcel, a box, an envelope. 2 Something which consists of various components, such as a piece of computer software. 3 (label en computing) A piece of software which has been prepared in such a way that it can be installed ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "the act of packing," from pack (n.) + -age ; or from cognate Dutch pakkage "baggage." The main modern sense of "bundle, parcel" is first attested 1722. Package deal is from 1952.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: bundle , packet , parcel ] a wrapped container [syn: parcel ] (computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system ...

Usage examples of package.

Hydroponics and Aeroponics are here and here, on the second floor, along with the maintenance section here, and the packaging facilities over here.

One idea was to record the thoughts of various world leaders, and large packages of Beatles albums and Apple releases were shipped off to Mao Tse Tung, Fidel Castro, Indira Gandhi and others, together with an invitation to record a spoken-word album explaining their philosophy to a worldwide audience of young people.

Staid club members stared when they saw Weston stride by, huddling a wrapped package under the fancy alpaca coat that he was wearing.

We will trust you, Apropos, to get the package to the fortress outpost called Terracote.

I think, too, there were some innocent bags full of beads and a few packages of Birmingham-made assegai blades.

And I saw Astel in those eyes, laughing at me, and Tacit in those eyes, proclaiming that he, not I, was the hero, and I saw the contempt of the knights, the sneers of the squires, the disdain of Stroker, everyone, all encapsulated in this one neat package.

I saw Astel in those eyes, laughing at me, and Tacit in those eyes, proclaiming that he, not I, was the hero, and I saw the contempt of the knights, the sneers of the squires, the disdain of Stroker, everyone, all encapsulated in this one neat package.

The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.

But would even an Auditorship be enough to induce the average Barrayaran woman to overlook the rest of the package?

A modified Boeing 707, it carried extensive mission avionics packages for long-range targeting information and identification.

La Bazri de Bazan had gone off somewheres and Mamma wanted to see if the package was still in the desk drawer.

This is a package of so-called bracky weed, a vile and noxious substance found in his possession.

Rees, and not Brock, chaperoned her and carried her packages and lent her money when she lost at the gaming tables.

The stream of platform foot-traffic opens around the bureaucrat and the stunned boy and the litter of packages.

The bureaucrat gently loads the kid back up with packages, neatens them.