Usually means: Designed for making or creating.
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  1. preparative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. preparative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. preparative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. preparative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. preparative: Vocabulary.com
  6. preparative: Wordnik
  7. preparative: Wiktionary
  8. preparative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. preparative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. preparative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Preparative, preparative: Dictionary.com
  12. Preparative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. preparative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. preparative: Rhymezone
  15. Preparative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. preparative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. preparative: Free Dictionary
  18. preparative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. preparative: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (preparative)

adjective:  That serves to prepare something
adjective:  preliminary or preparatory
adjective:  (chemistry) Pertaining to the synthesis, purification, or isolation of compounds from mixtures or raw materials.
noun:  Something to be done in preparation; a preliminary

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