0 school work that students, especially students at private schools, do at home or not during school time: --
Do you have much prep tonight?
1 abbreviation for preposition --
3 abbreviation for pre-exposure prophylaxis: the use of drug treatments to prevent a disease, especially HIV/AIDS, in people who do not have the disease --
4 to prepare: --
For those at school, a day's work is followed by "prep" whose relevance to examinations makes its pressure all the greater.
The 16-year entry, however, is to be reduced from one-half to one-quarter to provide for the "prep" school entries.
The avenue to the public school by way of the prep, school is equally expensive.
A great deal of the sector is hard up financially, particularly prep.
I shall certainly provide him with some more prep.
The fundamental basic feeling inculcated in every prep.
The second fine quality of the prep-public school system is its discipline and its hard work.
The classes are smaller (the average in prep schools is 14); the pupil/teacher ratio is much better; there is more generous pay for teachers.