Usually means: Making ready or being prepared.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word preparatory:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. preparatory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preparatory: Merriam-Webster
  3. preparatory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preparatory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preparatory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preparatory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preparatory, preparatory: Wordnik
  8. preparatory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preparatory: Wiktionary
  10. preparatory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. preparatory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. preparatory: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Preparatory, preparatory: Dictionary.com
  14. preparatory: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Preparatory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. preparatory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. preparatory: Rhymezone
  18. Preparatory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. preparatory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. preparatory: FreeDictionary.org
  21. preparatory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. preparatory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preparatory: Legal dictionary

(Note: See preparatorily as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.

Similar:
preparative, preceding, preparational, preliminary, præpared, preformative, prep., preperformance, foreprepared, promptuary, more...

Opposite:
terminal, terminal school, terminal college, terminal university

Types:
pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, probability, more...

Phrases:
preparatory to, Preparatory school, college preparatory, preparatory schools, Gulliver Preparatory School, more...

Adjectives:
only, general, special, oral, last, spirited, necessary, usual, private, final, appropriate

Colors:
    maroon,     forest green,     burgundy,     charcoal,     beige, more...

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Similar:
preparative, preceding, preparational, preliminary, præpared, preformative, prep., preperformance, foreprepared, promptuary, more...

Opposite:
terminal, terminal school, terminal college, terminal university

Types:
pre-algebra, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, statistics, probability, more...

Phrases:
preparatory to, Preparatory school, college preparatory, preparatory schools, Gulliver Preparatory School, Ivy Preparatory School League, Bellarmine College Preparatory, The College Preparatory School, more...

Adjectives:
only, general, special, oral, last, spirited, necessary, usual, private, final, appropriate

Colors:
    maroon,     forest green,     burgundy,     charcoal,     beige, more...



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