"prep" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /pɹɛp/ Audio: En-ca-prep.ogg [Canada], En-us-ncalif-prep1.ogg [Northern-California, US] Forms: preps [plural]
enPR: prĕp Rhymes: -ɛp Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} prep (countable and uncountable, plural preps)
  1. (countable) Preparation. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-YvySoYG2
  2. Abbreviation of preposition. Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: preposition Translations (abbreviation of preposition): prep. (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-vnDelfBp Disambiguation of 'abbreviation of preposition': 2 86 2 2 2 3 1 2
  3. (informal, countable) A prep school. Tags: countable, informal Categories (topical): Education
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-en:school Disambiguation of Education: 0 0 37 24 15 11 13 0 0
  4. (informal, countable) A student or graduate of a prep school, a preppy. Tags: countable, informal
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-BCpGtUfS
  5. (British, uncountable) Homework, work set to do outside class time, used widely in public schools and preparatory schools but not state schools. Tags: British, uncountable
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-iteehKx2 Categories (other): British English
  6. (Australia) Nursery school; preschool. Tags: Australia, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Stock characters
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-0ZUtjGwz Disambiguation of Stock characters: 3 2 8 17 14 25 11 10 9 Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 4 17 15 28 12 11 10
  7. (Philippines) Preparatory level; the last two levels or the fourth and fifth years of preschool; the two levels before first grade. Tags: Philippines, countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-IswQGPpb Categories (other): Philippine English
  8. Alternative form of PrEP Tags: alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable Alternative form of: PrEP
    Sense id: en-prep-en-noun-PfR8ZrQL
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: meal prep, prep room

Verb

IPA: /pɹɛp/ Audio: En-ca-prep.ogg [Canada], En-us-ncalif-prep1.ogg [Northern-California, US] Forms: preps [present, singular, third-person], prepping [participle, present], prepped [participle, past], prepped [past]
enPR: prĕp Rhymes: -ɛp Head templates: {{en-verb}} prep (third-person singular simple present preps, present participle prepping, simple past and past participle prepped)
  1. (informal) To prepare. Tags: informal Synonyms: prep up Translations (informal: to prepare): prepata (note: for an exam etc.) (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-prep-en-verb-en:verb Categories (other): English terms with collocations

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.