The meaning of PREPARE is to make ready beforehand for some purpose, use, or activity. How to use prepare in a sentence.

Idiom be prepared to do something (Definition of prepare from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

To prepare means to get ready for something. When you prepare for a test, you'll get a better score than if you don’t.

When you prepare food, you get it ready to be eaten, for example by cooking it. She made her way to the kitchen, hoping to find someone preparing dinner. [VERB noun] The best way of preparing the …

To prepare is to make ready beforehand for some approaching event, need, and the like: to prepare a room, a speech. Contrive and devise emphasize the exercise of ingenuity and inventiveness.

prepare 1. make get ready make provision He said the government must prepare an emergency plan for evacuation. 2. The crew has been preparing the ship for storage. 3. It is a school's job to prepare …

2 days ago · NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned today that the military alliance must prepare for war with Russia on a scale 'our grandparents or great-grandparents endured'

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To be willing (to do something): I am not prepared to defend him when I know he was wrong. [Middle English preparen, from Old French preparer, from Latin praepar ā re : prae-, pre- + par ā re, prepare, …

PREPARE definition: to put in proper condition or readiness. See examples of prepare used in a sentence.