Delicious indeed to lie on the broad verandah with the moon rising in front and the servants preparing dinner behind, and no trouble happening.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— to make ready beforehand for some purpose, use, or activity
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Macmillan
— to make something ready for use
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Collins
— If you prepare something, you make it ready for something that is going to happen.
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Other Word Forms
prepare
prepared
prepares
Usage
2 uses of ‘preparing’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster