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 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 …

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 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, …

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Nov 30, 2025 · He said in John 14:2-3, “I am going there to prepare a place for you . . . And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I …

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