All 4 Uses of
preparatory
in
Betrayed: A House of Night Novel
- Then it had been a stuck-up rich kids' prep school, but it had originally been built as a monastery for the Saint Augustine People of Faith monks.†
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- I remember that when I asked how the prep school had been talked into selling to the vamps Neferet had told me that they'd made them a deal they couldn't refuse.†
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- It was an exclusive East Coast prep school and, man, did it look stuck-up.†
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- I pulled up Google and typed in "private preparatory schools?†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(preparatory) done to get ready for something that will happen later
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
The expressions preparatory school and preparatory classes typically imply preparation for college. Often, preparatory school is shortened to prep school.