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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prepared
adjective
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.
stand prepared/ready to do sth (=be prepared to do something whenever it is necessary)
▪ We should stand ready to do what is necessary to guarantee the peace.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
better
▪ The clinic means everyone will be better prepared should any other problems arise.
▪ This last time I was better prepared.
▪ They were no better prepared for what followed.
▪ I vowed that my children would be better prepared when they left home.
▪ With these items in the house, I was better prepared than most.
carefully
▪ The unit in which he will live is within the hospital grounds, and was most carefully prepared and equipped.
▪ Public rooms include a lounge, two bars, and restaurant offering a wide choice of carefully prepared food.
▪ A pang shot through him and his carefully prepared speech about selling the hunter died on his lips.
▪ It jolts your carefully prepared and placed microphone out of position and may wobble the lectern as well.
▪ All the carefully prepared summaries and analyses were not worth the paper they were printed on.
▪ No trouble was spared to ensure that the carefully prepared seed-bed was ready to take the crop.
▪ From this he emerged in Antwerp in 1535 with plenty of money and a carefully prepared plan for Tyndale's destruction.
freshly
▪ Enjoy the freshly prepared food and a high degree of personal attention.
▪ Lachana Vegetarian Restaurant Freshly prepared vegetarian and vegan meals in a friendly non-smoking atmosphere.
specially
▪ The firm will arrange for a customer to have their particular message printed on specially prepared cards.
▪ The alchemist would burn incense and douse himself in specially prepared perfumes before carrying out his experiments.
▪ We also follow specially prepared bike routes, with little or no traffic.
▪ The most luxurious setting was a specially prepared Music Hall aboard ship.
▪ Mike will now have to feed his hives with a specially prepared solution of sugar and water.
▪ Silverpoint must be worked on to a specially prepared ground.
well
▪ Fred Clasper's disruptive plan had been well prepared.
▪ Very well prepared and laid out.
▪ The snow did not return until early in February: this time, the Oaks were well prepared.
▪ If your skiing is anything like as extreme as the conditions you will need to be well prepared.
▪ The catalogue was well prepared and the historical notes excellent.
▪ The First Sonata is no less well prepared and sympathetically interpreted.
▪ Soil should be free-draining and well prepared, with plenty of compost - keep plants watered during the first season.
▪ Bleached boards can look quite spectacular provided the surface has been well prepared.
■ NOUN
food
▪ I now wean them on to prepared food.
▪ Enjoy the freshly prepared food and a high degree of personal attention.
▪ Others, however, are convinced that it is easier to provide each child with a box of prepared food.
▪ I don't eat prepared food myself, so I have never liked it for my terrier.
▪ Public rooms include a lounge, two bars, and restaurant offering a wide choice of carefully prepared food.
▪ Tort considers such things as the caterer's liability for negligently prepared food which causes injury to the customer.
▪ They spread their bedrolls whilst Ratagan and Isay prepared food for the company.
▪ They sell prepared food, buy property and rent rooms, do hairdressing, sewing and make handicrafts.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(be prepared to) go to the stake for/over sth
ready cooked/prepared etc
▪ After the church service he was conducted to a house ready prepared, where a regal feast was laid before him.
▪ Anyone who has given online demonstrations and experienced systems breakdown, will appreciate the advantage of having alternative ready prepared demonstration material!
▪ Brownie albums were provided, with spaces ready prepared for slotting in a sequence of the snapshots.
▪ But fresh potatoes are less expensive than many of the dehydrated and ready prepared and frozen products.
▪ Freezer: Pack of steaks, beefburgers, fish-fingers, peas, runner beans, ready cooked curry meal, cod.
▪ Microwave combination ovens can successfully prime cook fresh and frozen foods and regenerate ready cooked dishes from chilled and frozen.
suitably dressed/prepared/equipped etc
▪ But one must be suitably dressed for a country visit and I had absolutely nothing fit to wear.
▪ They, too, regardless of the loss of their leader, were intent on being suitably dressed for Bank Holiday.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I was not prepared for all the questions they asked.
▪ In a prepared statement, Riggs denied being responsible for the murder.
▪ The dining room is all prepared for our guests.
▪ The police were prepared for trouble.
▪ The team was well prepared and focussed on the issues.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Further prepared sentences came readily to his lips.
▪ It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands.
▪ Senior officers say more and more criminals are prepared to carry firearms in cash raids.
▪ The company had a nervous joiedevivre as it set off on the prepared road towards Auchonvillers.
▪ The most luxurious setting was a specially prepared Music Hall aboard ship.
▪ Unlike the Prime Minister, I am prepared to have a referendum on this fundamental constitutional issue.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prepared

Prepared \Pre*pared"\, a. Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions. -- Pre*par"ed*ly, adv.
--Shak. -- Pre*par"ed*ness, n.

Wiktionary
prepared

  1. willing. v

  2. (en-past of: prepare)

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WordNet
prepared

  1. adj. made ready or fit or suitable beforehand; "a prepared statement"; "be prepared for emergencies" [ant: unprepared]

  2. having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: disposed(p), fain, inclined(p)]

  3. equipped or prepared with necessary intellectual resources; "graduates well equipped to handle such problems"; "equipped to be a scholar"

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Usage examples of "prepared".

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.

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.

Jews, whose stern fanaticism would be always prepared to second, and even to anticipate, the hostile measures of the Pagan government.

I perceived that I was hungry, and prepared to clamber out of the hammock, which, very politely anticipating my intention, twisted round and deposited me upon all-fours on the floor.