Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plowing; tillage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Plowing; tillage.

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  • noun obsolete ploughing, tillage

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Examples

  • At the strategic level, logistics prep-aration of the theater (LPT) combines the peacetime actions taken by logisticians at all echelons to maximize means (e.g., force structure, resources, and strategic lift) of logistically supporting the commander's plan.

    FM 9-6 Chapter 3 United States Army 1998

  • Mobile, responsive capabilities are essential for prep-aration and execution of the tactical level of munitions logistics.

    FM 9-6 CHAPTER 1 United States Army 1998

  • Jaric rose as the forester moved about the cabin, gathering together last minute items in prep-aration for his trip into town.

    Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989

  • Stile brought out a silver medal he had conjured in prep - aration for this moment.

    Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981

  • Theolo - gians who were attempting to build their lectures around Thomist, Scotist, and nominalist concepts soon complained over their students 'lack of adequate prep - aration in logic and natural philosophy.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

  • The humanistic movement also encouraged this sep - aration.

    UNIVERSAL MAN JOAN KELLY GADOL 1968

  • Where Saint Augustine's earthly and heavenly cities were eschatological, constituting men's final sep - aration in the next world, Wycliffe applied them to this

    HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES GORDON LEFF 1968

  • As I had not completed my high-school course, my first days at Albion were spent in strenuous prep - aration for the entrance examinations; and one morn - ing, as I was crossing the campus with a History of the United States tucked coyly under my arm, I met the president of the college, Dr. Josclyn.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • Our modest library also contained several histories of Greece and Rome, which must have been good ones, for years later, when I entered college, I passed my examination in ancient history with no other prep - aration than this reading.

    The Story of a Pioneer Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1929

  • She closed her College, October 29, 1889, in the height of xii: 15 its prosperity with a deep-lying conviction that the next two years of her life should be given to the prep - aration of the revision of SCIENCE AND HEALTH, which xii: 18 was published in 1891.

    Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865

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