Making a beginning but not being the real thing.
A means or measure or an action taken in preparation of.
1 The bankers met Economy Minister Christine Lagarde for preparatory talks on Monday.
2 In the preparatory stage evidence from international guidelines and literature were summarized.
3 There was a preparatory and long growl in the speech of them.
4 Before the winter had closed in, the preparatory palisades had been finished.
5 Accordingly, great arrangements were made in the flagship preparatory to the occasion.
6 We are in the last trenches, preparatory to finally abandoning the field.
7 The Forell tales were evasive and preparatory as well as vaguely instructive.
8 The dispatches related that American ships had landed preparatory to taking Santiago.
9 She shook down the contents of the envelope preparatory to opening it.
10 He caught the lapels of the coat preparatory to taking it off.
11 Therefore he had worked as never even in the old preparatory days.
12 But it needs a preparatory analysis, in order to make the discrimination.
13 The question is agitated of introducing this study into the preparatory schools.
14 The education of young Browne was limited to the strictly preparatory years.
15 We were then students at the preparatory college of the Redemptorist order.
16 But suppose there is a preparatory stage beyond; then all difficulty disappears.
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