"pre-prepare" meaning in English

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    },
    {
      "form": "pre-preparing",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "pre-prepared",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "pre-prepared",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1850, Millard Fillmore, Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress:",
          "text": "some stone[s] were pre-prepared, and also the wood-work of a coffer dam, but, as before stated, work on the shoal was not commenced.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Nancy Ellen Correll, A Status Survey of the Use of Pre-prepared Foods and a Study of the Effect of the Use of Various Proportions of These Foods on Food and Labor Costs:",
          "text": "For example, when a few frozen vegetables are used in a food service department, a worker might still be needed to pre-prepare the remainder of the vegetables and by working at a slightly slower preparation speed it might take this worker the same length of time to pre-prepare the vegetables.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, Kate Exley, Reg Dennick, Small Group Teaching: Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond, page 72:",
          "text": "I ask all the students to pre-prepare four or five points that will illustrate their argument individually.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of preprepare"
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  "word": "pre-prepare"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pre-prepares",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pre-preparing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pre-prepared",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pre-prepared",
      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1850, Millard Fillmore, Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress:",
          "text": "some stone[s] were pre-prepared, and also the wood-work of a coffer dam, but, as before stated, work on the shoal was not commenced.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1961, Nancy Ellen Correll, A Status Survey of the Use of Pre-prepared Foods and a Study of the Effect of the Use of Various Proportions of These Foods on Food and Labor Costs:",
          "text": "For example, when a few frozen vegetables are used in a food service department, a worker might still be needed to pre-prepare the remainder of the vegetables and by working at a slightly slower preparation speed it might take this worker the same length of time to pre-prepare the vegetables.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "2004, Kate Exley, Reg Dennick, Small Group Teaching: Tutorials, Seminars and Beyond, page 72:",
          "text": "I ask all the students to pre-prepare four or five points that will illustrate their argument individually.",
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