Synonym: preparative, propaedeutic. Similar words: reparation, prepare, prepared, irreparably, separate, oratory, separation, predatory. Meaning: [prɪ'pærətɔrɪ /-trɪ] adj. preceding and preparing for something.
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31. Preparatory stages Before sensible planning for the future can begin, those taking part need to know the current situation.
32. In far too many instances real hard preparatory work is confined to well trained union negotiators.
33. For Oswiu it was perhaps preparatory to a request for a pallium for the bishop of York.
34. Her family, like mine, was a respectable working-class one, her father being the groundsman at a private preparatory school.
35. There are also people of a naturally equable temperament who intuitively understand the need for preparatory mourning and adjust their lives accordingly.
36. Undismayed, she sent me to a first-class crammer for two terms[http://sentencedict.com/preparatory.html], and Brian to another preparatory school.
37. These children had completed their preparatory year and were of normal intelligence but severe physical problems prohibited them from entering regular school.
38. The most frustrating aspect of this preparatory phase is the waiting period before the attack is triggered.
39. Whether this represents a preparatory drawing for the finished painting or a different version of it, remains to be established.
40. In the Supreme Soviet standing commissions and their preparatory committees, however, limited serious examination of policies took place.
41. After attending two preparatory schools, he was admitted as a scholar to Winchester College in 1752.
42. Months of preparatory work needs to be done before construction can begin.
43. Practices sought independence in applying for fundholding status and found the preparatory year challenging and time consuming.
44. The Trustees of the Harpur Charity were asked to admit the female children of the House to their preparatory school.
45. Before the formal meetings, preparatory groups examined in detail the matters before the standing commissions.
46. Independent schools are also referred to as public schools, private schools, preparatory schools and non-maintained schools.
47. Must are preparatory schools, but some keep children to A-level standard.
48. Generally, however, printed circuit boards will be protected, through their preparatory drawings, by copyright.
49. They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians - largely Rome-based - to sit on the preparatory commissions.
50. So striking was the experience that many were said to believe it was preparatory to the end of the world.
51. Preparatory work of maquettes, photographs and drawings form the basis of this exhibition.
52. But the preparatory sketches and sometimes detailed studies that preceded them were nearly always nude figure studies of the historical characters.
53. But assistant director of environment, development and transportation, Ken Glew, said preparatory work was progressing.
54. I folded my arms and observed Emily Lightbody as she touched up her make-up preparatory to leaving.
55. Wool combers, essential preparatory workers in the production of worsted yarn, earned more.
56. Preparatory lectures will give a theoretical perspective to a residential weekend at an outdoor centre.
57. He made his will preparatory to his voyage.
58. I did preparatory exercises before the race.
59. A rigorous and comprehensive approach requires some preparatory work.
60. All the preparatory work has been completed.
More similar words: reparation, prepare, prepared, irreparably, separate, oratory, separation, predatory, migratory, separate from, laboratory, repartee, dilatory, aleatory, crematory, derogatory, defamatory, regulatory, repository, declamatory, orator, inflammatory, conciliatory, operator, predator, oratorio, narrator, apparatus, demonstrator, refrigerator.