Usually means: Lay foundation for future success.
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  1. prepare the ground: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. prepare the ground: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. prepare the ground: Wiktionary

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  1. prepare the ground: Legal dictionary

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  1. prepare the ground: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (prepare the ground)

▸ verb:  To do any preliminary work that will enable something to occur. [with for ‘something’]

Similar:
fore-prepare, foreprepare, forework, preinitialize, preconfigure, preprepare, prep up, prep, foreready, preheat, more...

Opposite:
clear

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Similar:
fore-prepare, foreprepare, forework, preinitialize, preconfigure, preprepare, prep up, prep, foreready, preheat, more...

Opposite:
clear



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