0 present participle of prepare --
1 to make or get something or someone ready for something that will happen in the future: --
[ + to infinitive ] It almost seems as if she is preparing to die.
[ + obj + to infinitive ] Are the players mentally and physically prepared to play a tough game?
This course prepares students for middle and senior managerial positions.
Very useful in preparing ideas to share with presenter.
First, the prediction technology, that is, agents' knowledge about preparing and evaluating forecasts, may simply impose such a restriction upon them.
There were many girls preparing for the parade in the ladies room.
To clarify further, home maintenance and housekeeping included preparing meals, laundry, cleaning, childcare, gardening, pet care, home repairs, and paperwork.
A great deal of this research has concentrated on the practice strategies and individual lessons, which most students undertake in preparing as performers.
Concomitantly, we see the emergence of professionally oriented armies that are no longer the mass armies of the modern era preparing for total war.
Several of the countries have published or are preparing evaluations of their dissemination strategies.
They were a critical group in preparing the public mind for war.
