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Prep vs Preparative - What's the difference?

prep | preparative |

As an initialism prep

is (emergency medicine) initialism of pre-exposure prophylaxis .

As an adjective preparative is

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prep

English

Noun

  • (countable) Preparation.
  • (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy.
  • (British, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools.

    • Verb

    (prepp)
  • (informal) To prepare.

    • Anagrams

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    preparative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That serves to prepare something
    • preparative chromatography
  • preliminary or preparatory
    • preparative discussions

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something to be done in preparation; a preliminary
  • * Dryden
    • Necessary preparatives for our voyage.
  • * Hooker
    • A preparative unto sermons.
  • * Herman Melville
    • All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, / The champions and enthusiasts of the state: / Turbid ardors and vain joys / Not barrenly abate— / Stimulants to the power mature, / Preparatives of fate.
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