Verb

(prepar)

To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.

* Bible, Psalms cvii. 36

that they may prepare a city for habitation

* Dryden

our souls, not yet prepared for upper light

To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.

To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}

To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.

Verb

(preprepar)

To prepare in advance.

*1850 , (Millard Fillmore), Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress :

*:some stone[s] were pre-prepared , and also the wood-work of a coffer dam, but, as before stated, work on the shoal was not commenced.

*2007 , Sarah Murray, Moveable Feasts , p. 98:

*:In the UK, too, consumers happily tuck in to 400,000 tons of preprepared meals a year.

* 2008 , Andrew H. Feinstein, John M. Stefanelli, Purchasing: Selection and Procurement for the Hospitality Industry (page 516)

Operators should try to avoid the temptation of prepreparing the snapper and then storing the portions in a freezer.