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prepared

[ pri-paird ]

adjective

  1. properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready:

    prepared for a hurricane.

  2. (of food) processed by the manufacturer or seller, by cooking, cleaning, or the like, so as to be ready to serve or use with little or no further preparation.


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Other Words From

  • pre·par·ed·ly [pri-, pair, -id-lee, -, paird, -lee], adverb
  • self-pre·pared adjective
  • super·pre·pared adjective
  • unpre·pared adjective
  • unpre·pared·ly adverb
  • well-pre·pared adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of prepared1

First recorded in 1520–30; prepare + -ed 2
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Example Sentences

Evers, 65, is among 18,000 volunteers who use an app called Food Rescue Hero, linking them to places where they can pick up produce, meat, dairy products and prepared meals that are close to being thrown away.

Inflation has been low or stable for decades, and the Fed is prepared to tolerate a temporary rise in inflation over its 2 percent target, he said.

This morning, after donning my most professional sweatshirt, I sat down prepared to focus on work.

From Quartz

“That’s just something that can happen because you’re together and you have your equipment, you’re ready and prepared,” he said.

From Digiday

It found that fewer than half of Maryland kindergartners enter school ready to learn, and fewer than 40 percent of high school graduates are prepared for college or a career.

Today, the city is an Asian hipster outpost, with shopping malls, clothing boutiques, and mixologist-prepared cocktails.

He prepared operations south of Samarra and north of Baghdad.

Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.

Divide batter into prepared ramekins, place ramekins on a baking sheet, and bake about 20 minutes.

This can also be prepared a few days in advance and stored, covered, in the fridge.

He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.

And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.

She was therefore prepared to sustain her part in the drama Routemberg was bringing on the tapis.

Hydrogen sulphid is easily prepared in the simple apparatus shown in Fig. 30.

But if you restrict it, to the sense in which it is commonly applied to the angelic sex, I am not prepared to answer.

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