preparation

IPA: prɛpɝˈeɪʃʌn

(uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
(uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.
(countable) That which is prepared.
A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
(anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.
(music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.
(Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
Devotional exercises introducing an office.
(music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.

Examples of "preparation" in Sentences

The ingredients are easy to find and the preparation is a breeze.
He has several more titles in preparation, is eyeing the international market.
A potentially explosive case, two years in preparation, is now before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
The very nature of the duty, which we call preparation, doth inevitably include this, that the time for it must be antecedent to the great duty of observing the ordinance itself.
And, before Christ by his graces and comforts comes to any for salvation, preparation is made for him by repentance, which is called the preparation of the gospel of peace, Eph. vi.
Camilla was still carrying on a vast arrangement which she called the preparation of her trousseau, but which both Mrs French and Bella regarded as a spoliation of the domestic nest, for the proud purposes of one of the younger birds.
To determine just how unbalanced teacher preparation is at ed schools, we counted the number of course titles and descriptions that contained the words “multiculturalism,” “diversity,” “inclusion,” and variants thereof, and then compared those with the number that used variants of the word “math.”