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Prepare or produce (something, especially food) in advance.
‘a takeaway or pre-prepared meal’
‘It is no one person's pride and joy, an assembly-line product, whose various pre-prepared components are put together in a thoroughly routine manner.’
‘Both media organisations have printed pre-prepared obituaries on well-known public figures.’
‘Eve stood in front of everyone, and then started another pre-prepared speech.’
‘They worked all night, but not a single article there was pre-prepared.’
‘It highlighted how many school kitchens were now only used to heat up pre-prepared food and too few children were choosing healthy options.’
‘In England, we eat more pre-prepared foods and ready-meals; we eat fast food both in and outside the home.’
‘For a defender, the great strength is pre-prepared locations from which to fight.’
‘They began pre-preparing batches of vaccines so more children could be treated, which investigators think led to the vaccines not working properly.’
‘He foresaw the huge demand for good-quality pre-prepared meals for the upwardly mobile.’
‘Questions are not pre-prepared and those attending will also be given the opportunity to submit more detailed written questions or requests for information, which will be taken away and dealt with afterwards.’
‘Coconut shrimp can be pre-prepared and dipped into a fryer.’
‘An increasing number of people are demanding pre-prepared, oven-ready meals and pre-packed, pre-sliced meat to fit in with their lifestyles.’
‘In the ‘Bake-Off’ category the dishes will be pre-prepared by the entrants.’
‘Such obituaries on major personalities are commonly pre-prepared and updated by all media organisations so stories can be run quickly when they die.’
‘Your affluent New Yorker gets lower fat takeout food, or buys something healthy that's pre-prepared from the supermarket.’
‘Pudding is also best to be pre-prepared and ready in the fridge or freezer.’
‘But he finds a bigger market for a quicker to cook, pre-prepared easy-carve lamb, at $17.90.’
‘His observation that the more cooking programmes we watch on TV, the more pre-prepared ready meals we eat made me laugh out loud.’
‘From calorie-counting fridges that could order groceries via the net to microwaves that would search the web for the cooking instructions to any given pre-prepared meal, he found everything from the weird to the bizarrely wonderful.’
‘The postage fees will be pre-paid, and the mailing will be pre-prepared, so the task will consist solely of transporting the mailing, and packing it into three separate mailing bags.’
‘Everyone was busy wrapping the last minute presents, pre-preparing the food for the next day, and making sure everything was done that needed doing.’
pre-prepared, ready prepared, ready mixed, pre-cooked, fast, easy to prepare, quick to prepare, easy to make, quick to make, microwaveable, convenience, tv