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Meanings of preparatory in inglês

Making a beginning but not being the real thing.

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A means or measure or an action taken in preparation of.

Usage of preparatory in inglês
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The bankers met Economy Minister Christine Lagarde for preparatory talks on Monday.
Reuters
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In the preparatory stage evidence from international guidelines and literature were summarized.
Pubmed
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There was a preparatory and long growl in the speech of them.
Men, Women, and Boats
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Before the winter had closed in, the preparatory palisades had been finished.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
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Accordingly, great arrangements were made in the flagship preparatory to the occasion.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17
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We are in the last trenches, preparatory to finally abandoning the field.
Morality as a Religion / An exposition of some first principles
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The Forell tales were evasive and preparatory as well as vaguely instructive.
Indirection
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The dispatches related that American ships had landed preparatory to taking Santiago.
Private life
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She shook down the contents of the envelope preparatory to opening it.
Black Jack
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He caught the lapels of the coat preparatory to taking it off.
Santa Claus's Partner
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Therefore he had worked as never even in the old preparatory days.
The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
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But it needs a preparatory analysis, in order to make the discrimination.
Practical Essays
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The question is agitated of introducing this study into the preparatory schools.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 / A Magazin...
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The education of young Browne was limited to the strictly preparatory years.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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We were then students at the preparatory college of the Redemptorist order.
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
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But suppose there is a preparatory stage beyond; then all difficulty disappears.
Love's Final Victory / Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis...
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Preparatory through the time
Preparatory across language varieties
United Kingdom
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