Usually means: Readiness through planning and organization.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word preparation:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. preparation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. preparation: Merriam-Webster
  3. preparation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. preparation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. preparation: Collins English Dictionary
  6. preparation: Vocabulary.com
  7. Preparation, preparation: Wordnik
  8. preparation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. preparation: Wiktionary
  10. preparation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. preparation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. preparation: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. preparation, the preparation: Dictionary.com
  14. preparation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. preparation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Preparation (principle), Preparation, The Preparation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Preparation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. preparation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. preparation: Rhymezone
  20. preparation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. preparation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. preparation: FreeDictionary.org
  23. preparation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. preparation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. preparation: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preparation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. preparation: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. preparation: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. preparation: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See preparations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The act of preparing or getting ready.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being prepared; readiness.
noun:  (countable) That which is prepared.
noun:  A substance, especially a remedy, that is prepared.
noun:  (anatomy) A part of any animal body preserved as a specimen.
noun:  (music) Any of the objects placed between the strings of a prepared piano.
noun:  (Judaism) The day before the Sabbath or other Jewish feast-day.
noun:  Devotional exercises introducing an office.
noun:  (music) The previous introduction, as an integral part of a chord, of a note continued into a succeeding dissonance.

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