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verb

Definition of prepnext
as in to prepare
to make ready in advance the cooking time is considerably shortened if you've prepped the chicken the night before

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noun

as in school

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Recent Examples of prep
Verb
An optional track package will prep the car to scratch your motorsporting itch. — New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026 The outages also disrupt work flows for businesses, like restaurant staffers who need to prep the food and open their eateries. — Kathe Tanner, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Noun
The near-term endgame is a counter used almost entirely for prep, not storage. — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Kansas City Star, 1 Oct. 2026 All the prep, all the focus, all the pressure of racing in the Cup Series is done. — Ryan Canfield Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prep
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prep
  1. prepare
  2. school
  3. preparatory school
  4. prep school
  5. boarding school
  6. academy
Verb
  • Tehran is preparing a more forceful response if Washington resumes large-scale strikes, Reuters reported.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Next, Meyer is preparing to introduce new love bird designs while continuing to build on the brand’s core collection.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of prepare
Noun
  • Critics note the change would mean the sun rises an hour later on winter mornings, leaving more children traveling to school and commuters, construction workers, farmers and others heading to work before daylight.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026
  • And three, sometimes four, of those many waking hours are spent in the car — bouncing from home to school to her second or third job and home again — with music at full blast to drown out the babble of anxiety, most of it financial.
    — Max Klaver, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of school
Noun
  • The elite preparatory school, first established in 1860, has several facilities for its students, 52 acres of space, and costs over $15,000 per year.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 15 Sep. 2026
  • In 2011, the school became Bethesda Academy, a college preparatory school for boys in grades 6-12.
    — Todd Holcomb, AJC.com, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of preparatory school
Noun
  • Fitting into prep school is hard enough, but Julia makes a quick enemy of Damion, a tutor who just happens to be the great-nephew of Julia’s former neighbor.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026
  • There, Teagan must navigate the choppy waters of her elite prep school Easton Academy and its all-boys crew team.
    — Isabelle Farina, Variety, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of prep school
Noun
  • The glorious grain of midcentury film captured them in posh Kensington, the hardscrabble East End, a Yorkshire farm, a children’s home, a boarding school.
    — Lauren Jackson, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The year is 1986 and the place is a girls boarding school in the Aburi Mountains of Central Ghana.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of boarding school
Noun
  • As recently reported by Billboard, the academy has continued its discussions about the category in light of the controversy.
    — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2026
  • At the academy, cadets are taught to envision every interaction as a life-threatening confrontation.
    — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of academy

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“Prep.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prep. Accessed 9 Oct. 2026.

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