Sửa soạn cho cái gì, chuẩn bị cho cái gì; mở đầu

preparatory to

để chuẩn bị, để sẵn sàng (làm gì)

preparatory investigations

những cuộc điều tra bước đầu

preparatory training

sự đào tạo bước đầu

chuẩn bị, sơ bộ

chuẩn bị

dự bị

sơ bộ

ban đầu

Adj.

Preparative, preliminary, introductory, prefatory,opening: After some preparatory warnings about safety, thescuba-diving lessons began. 2 elementary, basic, essential,fundamental, primary, rudimentary: His preparatory trainingleft him ill equipped to deal with such a major problem. 3preparatory to. before, in preparation for, preceding:Preparatory to the mission, we were briefed by MI5.

Adj. & adv.

Adj. (often foll. by to) serving to prepare;introductory.

Adv. (often foll. by to) in a preparatorymanner (was packing preparatory to departure).

Preparatoryschool a usu. private school preparing pupils for a higherschool or US for college or university.

Preparatorily adv.[ME f. LL praeparatorius (as PREPARE)]