prepare

Verb

• undergo training or instruction in preparation for a particular role, function, or profession
  • She is training to be a teacher
    
  • He trained as a legal aid
    

• lead up to and soften by sounding the dissonant note in it as a consonant note in the preceding chord
  • prepare the discord in bar 139
    

• create by training and teaching
  • The old master is training world-class violinists
    
  • we develop the leaders for the future
    

• educate for a future role or function
  • He is grooming his son to become his successor
    
  • The prince was prepared to become King one day
    
  • They trained him to be a warrior
    

• arrange by systematic planning and united effort
  • machinate a plot
    
  • organize a strike
    
  • devise a plan to take over the director's office
    

• to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery
  • prepare a report
    
  • prepare a speech
    

• prepare for eating by applying heat
  • Cook me dinner, please
    
  • can you make me an omelette?
    
  • fix breakfast for the guests, please
    

• make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
  • Get the children ready for school!
    
  • prepare for war
    
  • I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  train , develop , educate , groom , organize , organise , devise , get up , machinate , cook , fix , ready , make , set up , gear up , set