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UK
/pɹɪpˈæɹətəɹˌi/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɛpɹəˌtɔɹi, pɹɪˈpɛɹəˌtɔɹi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɛpɹəˌtɔɹi, pɹɪˈpɛɹəˌtɔɹi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
preceding and preparing for something
preparatory steps
How To Use preparatory In A Sentence
- Both were sent to preparatory schools. Times, Sunday Times
- But the preparatory drawings of individual members of the family remain. Times, Sunday Times
- At a preparatory hearing he raised possible defences of duress, necessity and public interest.
- After attending two preparatory schools, he was admitted as a scholar to Winchester College in 1752.
- Children begin school in kindergarten and attend elementary, preparatory, and secondary school.
- Only 5 percent of students take a college preparatory course in secondary school.
- Oh, nothin 'p'tic'lar," answered Ans, flinging his hat at a chicken that made as though to come in, and rolling up his sleeves preparatory to sozzling his face at the sink. A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen
- High school students can select from a variety of applied academic courses in addition to a more traditional college-preparatory curriculum.
- Even at his preparatory school, where he was known as a swot of the first water, he had displayed an unhealthy infatuation for that tongue; he loved its cold, lapidary construction; and while other boys played football or cricket, this withered little fellow used to lark about with a note-book, all by himself, torturing sensible South Wind
- Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed. Ulysses