preparations
- 1Plural of preparation.
Wedding preparations kept the whole family busy for months.
The team finalized their preparations the night before the product launch.
Note
A plural that sorts the senses of preparation by whether they can be counted. Readiness, the state of being prepared, has no plural. Remedies and other prepared substances do, as do specimens preserved from an animal body, the objects placed between a prepared piano's strings, and, in Judaism, the days before the Sabbath and feast-days. In everyday talk the plural names the separate steps of getting ready: preparations for a wedding or a launch.
preparations is a form of preparation
preparation, noun: The act of getting ready for something, or the work done to make it happen. Full entry
- Forms
- preparationpreparations plural
- Spelling
- preparation → preparations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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