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pre-prepare

pre-prepare is the alternative form of preprepare.

Meaning of preprepare

Verb

preprepare (third-person singular simple present preprepares, present participle prepreparing, simple past and past participle preprepared)

  1. (transitive) To prepare in advance.
    • In the UK, too, consumers happily tuck in to 400,000 tons of preprepared meals a year.2007, Sarah Murray, Moveable Feasts, page 98

Forms of pre-prepare

third-person singular presentpre-prepares
present participlepre-preparing
past participlepre-prepared
pastpre-prepared

Questions about pre-prepare

What is pre-prepare the alternative form of?
Pre-prepare is the alternative form of preprepare.

Words near pre-prepare in the dictionary

  1. Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
  2. pre-prandial
  3. pre-prandials
  4. pre-preg
  5. pre-pregs
  6. pre-prepare
  7. pre-prepared
  8. pre-prepares
  9. pre-preparing
  10. pre-primary
  11. pre-print

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